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Ron Howard

Oh Hollywood

Ron Howard is in Talks With Disney, The Graveyard Book Movie Lives Again

by Susana Polo | 4:19 pm, January 22nd, 2013

When negotiations between Henry Selick (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Disney broke down last year, after numerous delays on his unnamed feature stop-motion-animated film project, the exact status of The Graveyard Book adaptation was left uncertain. Selick seemed like a shoe-in to adapt another spooky Neil Gaiman young adult novel for kids after his Oscar nominated Coraline. In fact, the production kind of dropped off the map for a while, until today.

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Nope. Still Not Happening.

The Latest Dark Tower News May Be The Last Dark Tower News

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:48 am, August 21st, 2012

The ongoing saga to bring Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the big (or small) screen seems to be taking as long as the series itself took to play out but it’s just hit a brick wall. Warner Bros. has completely passed on the project. So is that it for gunslinger Roland Deschain? Hit the jump to find out. 

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Ace The Batpug

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:03 pm, March 13th, 2012

Lar deSouza put two awesome things together to create one really awesome thing. Batman + pug = Batpug! (via deSouza’s twitter) 

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The World May Never Know

Ron Howard Makes Us Even More Confused About His The Dark Tower Project

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:05 pm, November 3rd, 2011

Remember when Javier Bardem was set to play gunslinger Roland Deschain in a film and television adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series? And then when it was completely canceled because of budget issues? Then it was back on. Then it was coming to HBO. Take a deep breath, director Ron Howard is now saying it’s not happening anytime soon.

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Cautiously Optimistic

The Dark Tower Might Have a Home (On the Small Screen) at HBO

by Jamie Frevele | 2:45 pm, October 26th, 2011

More news about the adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower, and more reasons to think that this might really be getting off the ground. Producer Brian Grazer just keeps spilling more details about the large-scale project, and now he says that at least the TV portion will have a home at HBO. As for the film … that is still up in the air.

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There And Back Again

No, Wait: The Dark Tower Might Happen After All After Budget Cuts

by Jamie Frevele | 1:58 pm, October 24th, 2011

Between this and Disney‘s Lone Ranger, ’tis the season of will they-won’t they for big budget movie deals. If you’ve been following the saga of the film adaptation of Stephen King‘s sci-fi/fantasy/western series, you’re aware that it went from huge to non-existent, to maybe existing. And now, producer Brian Grazer is strongly emphasizing the “existence” part of it, saying that they’ve made budget cuts to this gigantic production and it might be go for launch after all. He also says the movie’s ending might be even more satisfying than the book’s. But is it still going to be the planned behemoth TV/film deal starring Javier Bardem?

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Oh Hollywood

Adaptation of Dark Tower May Still Have Some Life In It

by Alanna Bennett | 11:02 am, August 17th, 2011

Hollywood, why you gotta whip us back and forth like this? We reported almost exactly a month ago that the adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series was scrapped by Universal, but now you’re telling us that Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are still shopping around for financing and a new studio for their project. And while we’re not unhappy that the adaptation is showing new signs of life, we would at least like some finality on the subject either way. Oh? Hollywood doesn’t read this, and is, in fact, not one single entity that makes decisions as a whole? Moving on.

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Film/Television Adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Scrapped

by Alanna Bennett | 11:02 am, July 19th, 2011

The plans to adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower–into three non-consecutive films and two television mini-series to run in between the releases of said films–have been abandoned. Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman were dreaming big with this one, but apparently a little too big.

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Nope. Still Not Happening.

Ron Howard’s Dark Tower Adaptation Might Not Happen

by Jamie Frevele | 1:59 pm, May 6th, 2011

About a month ago, we reported on the huge deal Javier Bardem just made to play Roland Deschain in Ron Howard‘s film adaptation of Stephen King‘s sci-fi/fantasy/western series, The Dark Tower. It entailed a film trilogy that was to include an additional two-season TV deal intended to “bridge” the movies. And now it might not happen at all because of Universal‘s budget worries. Here is some context: Up until its most recent release, it had been releasing nothing but flops. That streak-breaking release: Fast [and Furious] Five.

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and let it be known

Javier Bardem Signs Huge Deal for The Dark Tower

by Jamie Frevele | 1:14 pm, April 8th, 2011

Javier Bardem is going to be a busy guy. It was just announced that he will be taking the lead role, that of “gunslinger” Roland Deschain, in Ron Howard‘s adaptation of The Dark Tower series. Written by Stephen King, it is a series of seven books that King has called his “magnum opus,” and it is described as a mixture of horror, western, fantasy, and science fiction. Not only that, but in addition to the main seven books, there are other King books that refer to the characters and storylines as well as a prequel comic. That translates into three movies and TV projects, maybe a series. So, don’t try to hire Javier Bardem for a while.

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