Sep 092010
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series has been optioned for both film and television with Ron Howard at the helm. The ambitious scope of the project (three movies and two television seasons) is encouraging, but…Ron Howard? The name doesn’t inspire much in the way of geek buzz and the source material doesn’t lend itself to the kind of mainstream vanilla fare that Howard has been churning out in recent years. I’d love to be proven wrong; Howard has made some entertaining movies and perhaps he can pull off a Peter Jackson. But if Tom Hanks is cast as Roland, I will lose all faith in humanity.
