Plans For The Dark Tower Movies

We've been getting some news recently about the future of The Dark Tower movie series, based on Stephen King's famous series. The Movie Blog reports:

We have word today that a seven film adaptation of The Dark Tower book series may be brought to the silver screen by way of Damon Lindeloff and J.J. Abrams. We get the scoop from the mouth of Lindeloff:

The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.

I love the Dark Tower books, and in my opinion they, as well as Salems Lot and The Shining, are Mr. King's greatest books. But on that note, I think trying to adapt these books into movies is a bad idea. While reading books, alot of times I try to mentally figure out ways that it could be made into a movie, like what scenes to cut, what to add, and such. The first four Dark Tower books would be fine for this, but by the fifth book, they take a turn that I can't see working outside of a literary world.

However, J.J. Abrams would be perfect for an attempt to put this epic seven part series into a movie. He is much more than qualified, but I just think that this series should stay out of the movies. And believe me, I very rarely think that.