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I'm not a huge Dark Tower fan but what I just read over at Deadline.com is so awesome that it literally stole my breath. Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman, and NBC Universal are going to tell Steven King's ginormous epic in both feature film and TV formats. They're going to do three films. They'll start with one and then use a season of TV to bridge to the next film.

OMG WHAT AN AWESOME IDEA!!!!! That way you get to see all of the really awesome big culminative scenes on the movie screen and you still get all of that time to deal with the character work on the small screen. If they pull this off then just think of all of the other books that could benefit from the same kind of treatment! And not just books! OMG, this is so much more exciting than 3D technology, this is a new kind of visual storytelling!

Yeah, so, if you can't tell, I think this is really frigging exciting. I mean, I probably would've ended up watching a Dark Tower movie because it's genre and I'm easy, but now I'm really excited to see what they do with it and how they handle the new format. If they pull it off it really will be the best of both worlds.

Which is not to say that every TV show/movie should get this kind of treatment. But, still, it's a genius idea and I really hope it works out for everybody involved, especially us fans.

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I'm still flailing like a crazy person about this and I've been thinking non-stop about the way this could change things. Like you said, not all stories would benefit from this - but think about the ones that would. Think about the stories that could be told like this! Ron Howard - why are you a genius?!

(see how excited Coach Doggett is about this?)