Well recently I've seen a strong surge of Books being adapted to the screen that were simply fantastic in book form at the ver least. So might as well start a thread about it, right? Some I'm looking forward: The Hobbit Mortal Instruments City of Bones Beautiful Creatures
If they do it right, The Dark Tower will be good. Except everything ever based on Stephen King turns to absolute shit on the bigscreen. So I'm not holding out hope. I also hear they are planning a movie adaptation of Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain", so at the very least that has the potential to make vampires less sparkly, and more genderless mouth scorpion-y.
Oh! I haven't really heard anything of The Dark Tower yet! You're quite right when it comes to the analysis of Stephen King adaptions, there's just a certain depth in his writing that would be hard to reflect onto a big screen; but, it is possible. So lets keep our fingers crossed, shall we?
Well, if they can find a black actress with no legs who can play someone with multiple personalities, then I will have hope. As it is, though, they will prolly just CGI her legs off and have a weinerdog as Oy. Thats about par for the course with his movies, lol. Oh, and Cell is in development.