It's not even good as a YA movie. It hits none of those points except for the main one "You Are Special. You Are The One!" and it reverses that.

I agree with ninja that the first movie didn't HAVE to include Eddie, Susannah, or the words Honk Mahfah…..but since this movie sliced right through pretty much every book in The Dark Tower, there should have been something. I think Jack Mort had one shot in this movie, if that helps.

Just got back.

You can hate the casting and have it be neither of those things. I don't hate the casting, but there's plenty of reasons to dislike something without it being some sort of statement.

Yep. Same reason as I told you Somewhere else on this board

Good thought. Certainly no one directly connected to that death have completely dealt with it. Miller and Beth are just trying to close the book and forget about it. They really come from different sides of the issue, though, don't they? Mark just can't get past it.

Yeah, but Thomas Jane is a painter for movie posters. So he was painting that for some movie that was made of the Gunslinger.

Ah. Good point! That poster in the living room.

yes. But this is later retconned for King's new idea

The Gunslinger
The Wastelands
The Wolves of The Calla
The Drawing of the Three
Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower
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.Song of Susannah.

I agree with your idea that King shouldn't have rushed the books…But I flat out HATED the Wind Through The Keyhole and just don't consider it a s any part of the Roland story.

Then game on, lint!

He did the right thing. There"s no coming back from that.

Walter DIDN'T do that. Jack Mort did. But Jake does need that incident as part of his backstory

Exactly. What a beautiful visual just handed to them. Unused.

Unless you've read the other books in the series NONE of it will make any sense anyway.

Jonah Hill as Harold Lauder. Rachel McAdams as Frannie, James Marsden, if we discount MM, as Flagg(he's so personable) Donald Glover as Larry Underwood. Angelina Jolie as Nadine Cross…..I got only the most obvious choices for Stu, and wish I had better ideas.

That's an interesting question. As far as I am aware, Darabont's name never came up for this. He understands King's tendency for characters to run off at the mouth. I wonder why he never got to take a stab at this.

Dude. That was made in 1953. Even older than I thought. Hell, yes, it's a deep cut.

I see what you did there.