Stephen King’s Dark Tower
Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King’s mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.
Ron Howard has committed to direct the initial feature film, as well as the first season of the TV series that will follow in close proximity. Akiva Goldsman will write the film, and the first season of the TV series. Howard’s Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer will produce, with Goldsman and the author.
Having the series go across TV and movies will be interesting and I’m curious how they will tie the two together (or if they will tie them together). It should be interestin.
by Ian Tregillis is an interesting mix of magic, demonology and alternate history. Knowing that Hitler was extremely interested in magic and the occult, it makes an great choice to put this story in WW II. The book also has an interesting take on magic, but there are some frustrations in the book as well. So, does the book work or not?
. But I’m curious how it turns out and does this mean that 
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, Stephen King talks about why these four stories hadn’t been published before. He riffs about the decline of the long story (also known as novellas). Stories that are too long to be short story, but not long enough to be a novel used to be a part of the literary scene. But the markets have dried up. So when King found himself with four novellas and no place to to put them, he decided to put them together in a book and see what happened. Little did he know that half the stories would become classic movies (and probably the two best movies ever made from Stephen King stories). So, what makes this collection of novellas so special?
is arguably Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous novel. The first chapter is essentially a preface by the author talking about the genesis of the novel. Where many books and stories have been told about Pearl Harbor or D-Day or Hiroshima, less has been written about the firebombing of Dresden. Vonnegut had been a prison of war and kept in an underground slaughterhouse in Dresden during WWII. For this book, he has given Billy Pilgrim his WWII history and a science fiction future. It’s a book about war and life. “Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”
. What starts out as a deceptively simple farce, turns into an epic adventure with 10 volumes and at least 2 spin offs. Smith comes out with little to no previous professional experience and self publishes this amazing work which earned him dozens of awards. But who (or what) is Bone?