The Dark Tower is largely considered to be Stephen King's magnum opus, a series of 7 books telling the tale of an anti-hero who is chasing after The Man in Black and searching for The Dark Tower across a barren fantasy landscape. Think The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly meets The Lord of the Rings. But there's also a catch. Almost 40 of King's other books have ties to events and characters in this series including the books The Stand, Salem's Lot, Insomnia, and Hearts in Atlantis. It's been about 6 years since I've read these books but certain images from them have always stuck with me.
King had written the first four books in the series at a very slow pace over the course of nearly 20 years, but then he was hit by a van. If I remember correctly he received a letter from a prisoner begging him to finish the series because he didn't want him to die before it was completed. The accident seemed to light a fire under King and around 04 through 05 he published the final three books.
The interesting thing about the screen adaptation is that it's one of the most ambitious undertakings ever done in Hollywood. It's going to be a trilogy of films with two seasons on television between the three films. Ron Howard is directing the first film and from what Collider says the first season of the series. No one knows who is directing the later two or the second season, but what we do know is that the first film is expected to arrive in theaters in 2013. If they do this justice, this will be something you'll never forget. It's a horror-fantasy-western-science fiction spectacle with shootouts and robots and scary creatures and everything in between, and I do mean everything in between. Go out and buy the first book The Gunslinger today, you'll be glad you did.
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