One of the best directors ever, Tim Burton, funnily enough, directed his first film for Warner Brothers in 1985 [as an unknown] because writer Stephen King [already famous beyond words] had seen a student film of his titled Frankenweenie and liked it. King recommended the young Burton to a high-ranking Warner Brothers' executive and, soon thereafter, Burton directed his first movie. The rest, as they say, is history. Oddly enough though, King and Burton have never worked together, after almost twenty years, even though both of them are high-ranking masters of the macabre. This can be easily remedied though.

As of writing King has finally finished an epic book series which he begun thirty years ago as a college student, well before his first novel [Carrie] was even thought about. The Dark Tower, as it's called, details the adventures of a gunslinger, a knight of sorts, who is on a quest of righteousness to the great dark tower that holds the universe together. Once there he will put right what is wrong and save the worlds from crumbling. It's classic good vs. evil and on the same level as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. There's nothing more haunting.

The tone is like a twisted post-apocalyptic Spaghetti Western with shades of Tolkien and the Twilight Zone. There is so much vivid imagery laced in between the cracks that Tim Burton's eye would do nothing but improve this already gargantuan mythology.

A Dark Tower series must be made. The fan base is much too massive to ignore.

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http://thedarktower.net
http://stephenking.com