Ron Howard Circling Superhero Movie '364'

Thumbs up or the finger to another superhero movie?

Director Ron Howard is on the verge of signing with Universal to make a new superhero movie, Variety reports.  The film is titled 364 in reference to the number of days this superhero is an average Joe without special powers, only one day he has super human abilities.

This new alternative take on the superhero genre comes from writer/director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).  There's no information on the production schedule or cast yet.  Too bad.   

What disappoints me is by adding another project to his schedule, Howard is further delaying the possibility that he directs the big screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower any time soon if at all.  He has three movies on deck prior to 364.

It really grinds my gears (Peter Griffin saying) when filmmakers say their going to direct an epic movie, build it up and then completely bail on the whole thing by taking on more (other) projects.  Luckily, Hollywood is full of capable directors that will hopefully have the stones to resurrect The Dark Tower.  

Comments

[J.Bradley]

In the biz it's all about "the next job". Sometimes you've got to really build up one of 'em to even get it started - and sometimes they never do. In that process you're dealing with other people that have something THEY'RE really nuts about and you jump on board with them hoping maybe down the line they'll go nuts for what YOU want to do. That's how it works a lot of the time. Works that way even in things OTHER than the movie biz.

[Patrick Fancher]

Here's hoping someone else is really nuts about making The Dark Tower.

[V.A.]

And I was hoping his next project would be the Arrested Development movie...

[J.Bradley]

I'm thinking they'll either have a "Lost"-like "Dark Tower" TV series or the books condensed down to a trilogy - and no, not each and every book ala Harry Potter. Sorry, but they simply WILL NOT do both. That's just not gonna' happen in this universe with movie and tv climate as it is. I'd rather just see a good stripped down version of the book series anyway, as far as movies go. Just be content to have the book series be what IT is, and any movie adaptation be what IT is. Certainly the elements and characters would be recognizable, but otherwise it's just it's own thing. The books can stand as the fuller more complex thing if one wants to dive into that.

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