Here's a link to the
Dark Tower movie page, with info. It sounds like they're planning to do 3 movies, with a miniseries in between each movie, to develop the characters further and cover the material in between. But yeah, I agree that the sheer scope and size of the saga will make it very difficult to cover adequately.
SK
should translate to the screen fairly well, but a lot of what I've seen is hit-and-miss.
Dreamcatcher was pretty darn good, and it sounds like
Bag of Bones is getting a shot. Of course
Stand by Me and
The Shawshank Redemption were great too.
Pet Sematery was pretty creepy as well, and
The Shining freaked me right out back in the day...
Anyway, getting off-track here, but it's cool to know I'm not the only DT junkie on here.
Book 8 is coming out very soon now... The Wind Through the Keyhole.