The video below is brought to us via the Reelz Channel and is conducted with J.J. Abrams at the US-Ireland Alliance party. Inside the video he talks about the release date change for Star Trek as well as stating that Drew Goddard and Matt Reeves have an idea for a Cloverfield 2.
However, the news that struck me most was that J.J. and his producer buddy Damon Lindelof are working on adapting Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series. He says they are “in very early stages of doing an adaptation of the ‘Dark Tower’ series so that would be amazing.” Indeed it would be, especially since Stephen King has said in the past that it is a series that shouldn’t be adapted, and it really shouldn’t. I think taking any attempt at adapting this wouldn’t work, especially not as a television mini-series which is probably what would happen.
Cinematical carries a quote from King just last year at the New York Comic Con when he was asked about turning the series into a film or television show. King says, “Well, I’ve said no to everybody recently, because I just didn’t think that the chances of it being a good movie….I mean, this is my life’s work, in a sense. It’s been there since the time when I was 22 years old and I finally finished it up somewhere in my 50s. So it’s very important to me.”
King continues though and mentions Abrams and Lindelof, “And I know J.J. Abrams work and Damon Lindelof, his collaborator on Lost. David is just a total comic-book freak and loves The Dark Tower. He likes those books and I trust those guys, cause they’ve got a lot on the ball. So, when they said ‘We’d like to talk about doing this,’ I said ‘You know what? Why don’t you option this and see if you can develop it.’ And they said ‘How much do you want for an option?’ And I said ‘nineteen dollars.’ And that’s what they paid me, and that’s where it is.”
I have only read the first four in the series and have the other three sitting on my shelf waiting to be read and there is also a comic book series out there, of which I am not sure if it is new stories in the series or pieces from the books, but who knows, maybe that is what they are adapting since King does mention how much of a comic fan Lindelof is.
To hear the news from the horse’s mouth and more on Star Trek and the needless Cloverfield 2 watch the video below.
