![]() ![]() Even by the standards of the author, it’s a very big, very complicated story. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Akiva Goldsman nab the rights to the Dark Tower series, seven books - an eighth would come in 2012 - about a gunslinger named Roland hunting an evil sorcerer known as the Man in Black through a fantasy-Western universe. Let’s look back on the fantastic journey of the project that once seemed like it would be this decade’s Lord of the Rings. ![]() (Call it the Shrinking Tower of Sony.) It’s the end result of more than seven years of development, which saw multiple delays, casting changes, and changing release dates. Such is the case with the screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, which was originally planned as the first installment of a gargantuan multi-platform franchise, but now arrives in theaters on Friday as the rare 90-minute summer blockbuster. And then there are other tales that start out incredibly big, only to shrink down to a more manageable size once the tellers realize that’s the only way they’re going to be able to finish the dang thing. There are some tales that grow in the telling. ![]()
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