{"id":444,"date":"2007-02-27T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=444"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:51:52","slug":"news-from-the-dead-zone-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/news-from-the-dead-zone-59\/","title":{"rendered":"News From The Dead Zone #59"},"content":{"rendered":"

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February 27, 2007<\/strong>: Stephen King confirmed at New York Comic Con last weekend that he had granted the option to make a Dark Tower movie to J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindeloff (LOST<\/em>) for $19.<\/p>\n

King also addressed the persistent rumor that he might go back and rewrite the rest of the Dark Tower books, as he did with The Gunslinger<\/em>. “Yes, that’s correct. It’s a first draft. It was written over a long period of time, and I look at it as a work that’s still in progress. That’s why I re-did the first book. The vision that I had of what was going on got clearer as it went along. So, for instance, I looked back at the first book and I said to myself ‘there’s a lot of things I can do with this now, now that I know how everything turns out in the end.’ I’m a really instinctual writer\u2014I don’t work with an outline. I did have an outline of some of The Dark Tower stuff way back when, when I started, when I was stoned, and I lost it. I didn’t have a clue, and I couldn’t remember what was going on, and I had that poem by Robert Browning to draw on, to start, so I knew certain elements that I wanted to be in it, that were in the poem. So, when I got done, and I looked at it, I said This Horn of Eld should be there at the front. That’s what you when you rewrite a book. I’ve got a book now called Duma Key<\/em>, and there’s a woman who has some bracelets and the bracelets are important, but they’re not there until the end of the book. What I’m saying is, I know now some things I could do. The Dark Tower<\/em> is one book, and I’d like go back and fix it up. Who knows\u2014I might end up novelizing their comic book.”<\/p>\n

He also suggested that The Stand<\/em> would make a good project for a comic book adaptation. Here are some reports about the panel, including some with photos:<\/p>\n