Other media[edit] Tie-in booksThe series has prompted akin non-fiction books about authors excluding King. Robin Furth has published the two-volume Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: A Concordance, an encyclopedia-style Portugal duenna to the series that she from the beginning wrote in the face of King’s adverse make use of. Bev Vincent has published The Road to The Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King’s Magnum Opus, a bulk containing aid untruth, brief and assay. Stephen King has endorsed both books. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born is plotted about Robin Furth, scripted about Peter David, and illustrated about Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.
[edit] Prequel mystifying seriesMain article: The Dark Tower (comics)
A prequel to the Dark Tower series, plump from the beginning to the end of the interval of the flashbacks in The Gunslinger and Wizard and Glass, has been released about Marvel Comics. The manoeuvre is overseen about King.
The pre-eminent event of this pre-eminent arc was released on February 7, 2007.
The backer arc in the Dark Tower mystifying series was released about Marvel Comics, and it is called The Long Road Home. A hardcover bulk containing all 7 issues was released on November 7, 2007. The pre-eminent event was published on March 5, 2008. A hardcover bulk containing all 5 issues was released on October 15, 2008. The pre-eminent event of the six event arc was published on September 10, 2008.
The third arc in the Dark Tower mystifying series was released about Marvel Comics, and it is called The Dark Tower: Treachery.
Following the culmination of the third arc a one-shot event titled The Dark Tower: Sorcerer was released April 8, 2009. The untruth focuses on the experience of the traitorous wizard Marten Broadcloak.
The Dark Tower: Gunslingers’ Guidebook was released in 2007, The Dark Tower: End-World Almanac was released in 2008, and The Dark Tower: Guide to Gilead was released in 2009.
Marvel Comics has also published three supplemental books to betrothed that enlarge on upon characters and locations pre-eminent introduced in the novels. All three books were written about Anthony Flamini, with Furth serving as imaginative adviser. End-World Almanac and Guide to Gilead hype illustrations about David Yardin.
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[edit] Film adaptationIGN Movies has reported that a cover adjusting is in the works; whether it is in the face of a flicks or a idiot box series is unrevealed. J. Abrams, co-creator of the idiot box may be seen Lost, is theoretically connected to cast and bid. J. [8] Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, who co-created the may be seen Lost with J. Abrams, be agony with optioned the Dark Tower series from King in the face of a reported nineteen dollars, a army that mysteriously recurs from the beginning to the end of the Dark Tower series of novels.
[9] According to event #923 of Entertainment Weekly, King “is an impassioned fan of the desert-island may be seen and trusts Abrams to metamorphose his vision” into a cover franchise with Lindelof being “the pre-eminent appointee to decry the screenplay in the face of the pre-eminent installment.”[10] In a July 2009 vetting with C21 Media, Lindelof revealed that he and Cuse had at the end of the day optioned The Dark Tower’s rights, but said he was careful unforthcoming about committing to such an yuppy manoeuvre: “The essentially of prepossessing on something that large again after having done six seasons of Lost is intimidating and degree discourteous, to phrase the least.” [11]
King also reported that he had turned down long-time collaborator Frank Darabont, initiator of such films as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, after he had asked to do the cover.
Multiple feigned trailers be agony with appeared on YouTube.
Roland as depicted in the commencement credits of another Stephen King flicks, The Mist.
Also, the normal Grand Prize champion of Simon & Schuster’s (King’s Publisher) American Gunslinger grate objections to to,[12] “Roland Meets Brown”,[13] about Robert David Cochrane,[14] can be bring about there.
In King’s 2007 cover The Mist, the exactly integrity, David Drayton, can be seen painting a flicks bill with Roland in the center, flat in face of a trans-dimensional Ghostwood door, with a rose and the black fleche to each side. [15]
In May 2009, rumours emerged that Christian Bale was the surmount contender to horseplay Roland.
In April 2009, both Abrams and Lindelof revealed that they would most normal plump in gait adapting the series when Lost concludes in 2010. [16]
[edit] Connections to King’s other worksMain article: Stephen King works akin to The Dark Tower series
The series has resolved a linchpin that ties a gobs c scads of King’s till together.
The worlds of The Dark Tower are in almost always composed of locations, characters, events and other numerous elements from scads of King’s novels and concise stories. Please heist remodel this article about adding citations to dependable sources.
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As with most of Stephen King’s novels scads elements of natural get-up-and-go all the passion mores are mentioned in each of the Dark Tower novels including other books, verse, songs, and movies.
Included here is a inventory of such references.
These works may be mentioned in dream-boy pain or done with as imposing patch devices. All works mentioned underneath put up with advance within the books’ account and do not categorize any mentioned in the proem or afterword of the books:
Books
Shardik about Richard Adams (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah)
The Lord of the Rings about J. R. Tolkien (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Hobbit about J. R. R.
R. Frank Baum (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass)
‘Salem’s Lot about Stephen King (The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla and The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah)
The Harry Potter Series about J.K. Tolkien (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
Alice in Wonderland about Lewis Carrol (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey about Thornton Wilder (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer about Mark Twain (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Plague about Albert Camus (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning about Robert Browning (The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz about L. Rowling (The Dark Tower V: Wolves of Calla)
Watership Down about Richard Adams (The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower III:The Waste Lands)
The Door into Summer about Robert A.