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The movie is a sequel to the DT series, not a telling of anything in it.
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Stephen Kings "The Dark Tower": 'Losely' based on the novels???
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The movie is a sequel to the DT series, not a telling of anything in it.
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I read all the books. I only saw the coming attractions, but based on that alone my impression was "Gee, that really doesn't feel like the Dark Tower at all."
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Or, for those that have read through all the books including ignoring the warning in book 7....
The answer to the question of whether or not this is a retelling or a sequel is "Yes".
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I'm a weird King fan and the opposite of some in this thread. I have zero interest in the vast majority of his books. The only ones of his I've actually enjoyed have been the Dark Tower series and a few of the books tying into it or in a somewhat similar vein (Loved Insomnia, Loved The Stand).
Wolves of the Calla was the low point in the series for me. There was one decision point in the final 3 books that made me want to literally find him and re-enact the Van incident. The final resting place of Black 13 when I read Song of Susannah the Susannah when it came out left me kind of agape. And book 7 just sadly didn't live up to the build and missed out on some things I think it could've done.
That said, the first 3 books where FANTASTIC and Wizard and Glass was extremely good as well. And of the final 3, I felt SOS was pretty solid as well aside from that one point. I very much enjoyed the series. And I think the ending, the real ending and the faux ending, was a GREAT way of highlighting one of the central themes of the books and tying it into the readership.
All of which is to say...it's sad that all of that got distilled into what appears to be an incredibly disappointing movie.
Wolves of the Calla was the low point in the series for me. There was one decision point in the final 3 books that made me want to literally find him and re-enact the Van incident. The final resting place of Black 13 when I read Song of Susannah the Susannah when it came out left me kind of agape. And book 7 just sadly didn't live up to the build and missed out on some things I think it could've done.
That said, the first 3 books where FANTASTIC and Wizard and Glass was extremely good as well. And of the final 3, I felt SOS was pretty solid as well aside from that one point. I very much enjoyed the series. And I think the ending, the real ending and the faux ending, was a GREAT way of highlighting one of the central themes of the books and tying it into the readership.
All of which is to say...it's sad that all of that got distilled into what appears to be an incredibly disappointing movie.