scruffy said

Old Mr Dangerous said  
Which ones have you peeped? The Dark Tower is important to such coinciding works as Salem's Lot, The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman, Insomnia, and many more... it's fantastic.    

started the stand once, i think.  none of the rest of those. 

my uncle, who is a small king fan [more than me, anyway] is quick to say that salems lot is his only good book.  but hes read most of em...  feature that. 

 

i know i actually finished it [the book.  'it'.  not salems lot].  i think i finished desperation, the only one i own.  read a load of short stories. 

and then theres a buncha books that i put down somewhere around halfway through em.   

I tried to read "Cell" last year, put it down about halfway and have no intention to ever finish it. It didn't catch me.

'Salem's Lot... man its been over 20 years since I read that. I remember it being actually scary at one point.

Funny story about that book. My dad's fourth wife, this spiteful old wench, used to earn sidecar from selling Ebay shit. That was her passion.

I had my mom's old ass copy of 'Salem's Lot, still in great condition with the slipcover and such. My brother and I looked it up on ebay for kicks, eating bowls of chili and giggling. Turns out that the copy was rare and was selling for $1,200 on ebay. 

My dad's wife heard our excitement.She came over,, smoking a cigarette, and observed our excitement at the treasure we'd found. She said nothing, took a few drags from behind us, and left.

I did further research and found out that the ISBN number in the book didn't match our copy, so it actually was not worth $1,200. More like, $6.00. Or something... either way, we laughed about the deal, and I went in for some more chili.  (Violent J just said "chili fries in 'Sleepwalker', right as I typed that word..weird).... 

And was greeted with a big clump of cigarette ashes, atop my dinner. 

That bitch was hating so hard about us selling that book for so much, she ashed in my food.

So for years after, we always said that if someone is raining on your parade, or just being a bad viber.. they are "ashing in your chili".

"Damn, that bitch really ashed in my chili today.."

Anyway, here are some stlls from the DT film shoot..

http://gothamist.com/2016/07/07/dark_tower_nyc_dumbo.php#photo-21

scruffy said
i would have reacted...  so very badly... to that.   

It's okay, I got back at her years later.

The filming for Dark Tower has wrapped. I'm ready for 2017.

Slumerican502 said
I'm geeked about this and a little sad at the same time. I wanted a lord of the rings style epic for this because it's what it deserves. At the same time though it will be cool to see what they do with it. I'm not going to break out the pitchfork until I see the movie.

Still baffled at the choice for the man in black. Maybe he will crush it though. We will see I guess.

I do think that one dude will make a great Roland now that I've seen him in a few different things. Still think Josh Brolin would have made for a better choice. I was thinking about that while watching No Country for Old Men a few days ago.  

i strongly feel that the "continuation of the series" angle is genius. GENIUS. Perhaps Roland will attain some sort of suitable redemption, after all those repeats. He may be able to sub-sub-sub-subconsciously avoid certain pitfalls, while falling into new ones, in his (FINAL?) journey. 

Maybe him being a black man is him finally remembering the face of his father. Maybe the whole eternal damnation was him hating the fact that his father was black lol... sounds crazy but I think this is where they are going. Hord of Eld, bitch.

I just watched the "leaked trailer" for the first time.. not usually my style, but it worked it's way into my YouTube with ease..

it looks awesome. A bit different from what we expected.. but it will all make sense, I promise you.

The Horn of Eld.

Up in this bitch, up in this bitch