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11Nov2009

J.J. Abrams Backs Away From 'Dark Tower'

DateWednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2:24AM
We covered this ground a while ago, when Damon Lindelof said he wouldn't be adapting Stephen King's Dark Tower, one of those projects so big it has to be a movie, but too big to actually be a movie.

Wait - who's Damon Lindelof again? Oh, sorry. He's one of the executive producers, co-creators, and co-writers of Lost, and his boss, J.J. Abrams, has the rights to Dark Tower through his Bad Robot production comp'ny. And, for a while now, Lindelof has been linked to developing this project after Lost goes off the air next summer.

But he said last month he won't be making Dark Tower, and now Abrams tells MTV the movie won't be happening at all for a while. "The Dark Tower thing is tricky," Abrams began. "It's such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now."

These guys obviously have a lot going on. Star Trek is bound to have a sequel in 2012, you'd have to think. Lost is occupying the next six months. Abrams is producing Mission: Impossible IV, and he'll probably be very involved with that project on a day-to-day basis. So a movie like Dark Tower - which is better served as big concurrent production thing like Lord of the Rings - would just take forever to put together. And, much like LOTR, there's no reason to do it half-assed.

So, accept that we're better off with nothing at all for the time being.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

Not upset with this news at all. Much like the Preacher comic series, I think this project is just too big and complex to be done as anything but an extended mini-series on a channel like HBO.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermdamien13

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