Part of me is starting to believe that the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is some sort of cosmic trick. The closer it seems to get, the further away it really is. I mean, the project’s been in development for over a decade, and its release has already been delayed twice — first from January 2017 to February 2017, and then again until this upcoming July.

And now it’s been delayed even further.

/Film is reporting that The Dark Tower won’t make its July 28th release date, and will now arrive August 4th. I mean, it’s not the end of the world — the delay is literally only a week. But I’m starting to be convinced that when I arrive at the theaters on August 4th, I’m going to be told that the release has been moved to the 5th.

And that no matter what I do, the release will always just be just out of reach.

Seems fitting I guess.

Via /Film

The film adaptation of The Dark Tower seems to be perpetually just out of reach. After a good decade of going in and out of development hell, the movie finally started coming together last year. The film got a couple of amazing lead actors, filming actually happened, and it looked like it would actually make its February 2017 release date.

Well, sadly not so much on that last one.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the film has hit delays in post production, and the film will now find itself on the Summer schedule for 2017 instead. While it’s a special effects intensive fantasy epic, but The Dark Tower only has a budget of $60 million. As the effects were taking longer than expected to produce, the studio had to choose between delaying release or pouring millions more into the film to get it done in time.

It’s not the worst news we could get at this point, but considering how rocky a road the film has had (and how long its taken for the film to actually happen), it does seem like it’s a bit cursed.

Which, I guess, would be appropriate?

Update: The release date is now July 28, 2017.

Via EW

To explain how long people have been trying to develop The Dark Tower series of novels by Stephen King to screen is to explain time itself. I swear, it’s been a thing that’s been worked on as far back as I can remember, and every time I hear about it I instinctively dismiss it at this point.

But even though this latest attempt by Sony has looked more concrete than the earlier versions, I was still resisting it. It didn’t matter that Sony put in on their schedule for an early 2017 release. It didn’t matter that the film finally had a director. It didn’t matter that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey had both been cast in major roles.

I just couldn’t make myself buy it. I had been burned far too often.

Well, guess what? I’m finally willing to believe the movie is happening now. My reason is pretty simple, as Sony announced yesterday at Cinema Con that principal photography has officially begun. They are literally, right now, at this very moment shooting the movie.

In simple terms if you put something on film, I’ll believe the film exists.

So here were are, an excellent cast making a movie that I’ve never been sure could work as a movie. A movie that even if it does work as a movie will be difficult to market. A movie that even if it’s marketed well, will surely confuse the heck out of audiences with its sequels.

What a strange world we live in.

The Dark Tower is currently scheduled for a February 17, 2017 release.

Via Screenrant

A movie or television adaptation The Dark Tower series of Novels by Stephen King has been in development hell as long as I can remember. When I started writing this article I was convinced that Nerd & Tie must have covered this before, but realized it couldn’t have because I was thinking about news that came out five or six years before Nerd & Tie existed.

Anyway, every once and a while we hear a blip or two about this project, but I’ve taken to ignoring them as none have yet to actually resolve into something real…

…well… maybe until now.

You see, Sony dropped a ton of movie news yesterday, and in that pile was one important thing we’ve never had before: A release date for the first Dark Tower movie.

The film is scheduled to come out January 13, 2017 — which is only a year and a half away. This means that the wheels are actually moving forward, and that the odds are pretty good that something is actually going to happen this time around.

I mean yeah, there’s still a chance this whole thing could fall apart – and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did – but this is the closest to actually happening the films have ever gotten to.

Now should this series be adapted into film? I’m not sure. The ending to those books (which I won’t spoil) is so weird that I don’t know if movie goers would ever accept it… so either they’ll leave it and the masses will leave scratching their heads, or it’ll get changed and die-hard fans will get mad.

Both reactions would be kind of hilarious to watch, honestly.

Of course, then there’s the third option: The first movie bombs and we never get anywhere near the end of the series, ala The Golden Compass.

…honestly, I think that might be the best option here.

Via The Wrap