SONG OF SUSANNAH
I'm not going spend much time talking about this book. I kind of feel like this is more of a long prologue for the final book. Song of Susannah is broken up into Stanzas instead of chapters. Each Stanza concludes with a verse from a the song. Like this one below that concludes the book . ...
STAVE: Commala-come-kass!
The child has come at last!
Sing your song, O' sing it well,
The child has come to pass.
RESPONSE: Commala-come-kass!
The worst has come to pass.
The Tower trembles on its ground;
The child has come at last.
Basically, the importance of this book is Susannah/Mia traveling to New York to a place called the Dixie Pig to birth the child that is a mixture of Susannah, Mia (a demon) and Roland (the gunslinger). How this happened is very confusing and I am not going to attempt to describe it. Anyways, you find out quite a bit more about the plans of the Crimson King (the ultimate bad guy) and his many minions. Stephen King (the character) also makes his first appearance.
Most of all, this book is about the birth of Mordred (a name that should be familiar to anyone that knows anything about Arthurian Legend). He's a little bastard that tracks our heroes for the rest of the series.
Anyways, you may wonder why I have titled this section May 17, 2013. Well according to the official website of "The Dark Tower" that is when the first movie of the series is set to be released. Obviously, these things are always tentative.
Here's the jist of the endeavor. Ron Howard is set to direct for Universal Studios. The plan is to make three movies with a full season of television episodes to bridge the gap between each film. I think the shows will air on NBC. No actors have been announced yet, but I am sort of hoping they scale back on simply signing A-list people, at least for the main characters.
I see this as either being very successful or completely dreadful. If the first movie bombs at the box office will NBC really want to be committed two seasons of shows to build up for bad movies. If they do drop it, will the entire series flounder after one bad showing. This is possible, because the action early in the series is a little slow compared to later.
You can find out more about this whole situation by Googling "The Dark Tower." I just think this is the most relevant thing about the series to share right now.
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2 comments:
That seems very ambitions and extremely difficult. How do you take the same people film big budget movies and a full run TV season? Sounds highly unlikely to work. Plus like everything else, the die hard people that worship these books will end up hating it and it will drag on too much for the average fan to pick up and keep interested in not knowing the books.
I think they are going to try and film it all at once like they did with the Lord of the Rings movies. I worry you may burn out some actors with this, especially whoever plays the boy Jake throughout the movies and series.
Its going to be different because its a different medium. There are just people who can't seem to understand that that is a reality of any book turned to movie. If you want your vision untarnished of a book, I'd recommend never going to see a movie about it.
I am more curious to see how they handle it. Maybe I won't like it, but that's not going to change my perception of the books. I am just glad that I'll finally have a movie I want to see. Its been awhile since that's happened.
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