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Talking About Stephen King: Why was the film version of Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ not based on the first novel in the series, ‘The Gunslinger’?

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I haven’t seen  The Dark Tower,  but from what I have heard of it, I think the four screenwriters (Nikolaj Arcel, Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, and Ander Thomas Jensen) and the film’s director (Arcel) may have been forced by certain considerations to adapt the  Dark Tower  series the way they did. First, as  Quora's Matt Reda points out in his answer, Stephen King’s series is made up by eight novels; seven of them are the main series, while  The Wind Through The Keyhole  (which King says is Book 4.5, and fits between  Wizard and Glass  and  The Wolves of the Calla ) is a side jaunt written after the series ended with  Book VII: The Dark Tower. This is a huge story, as big, say, as J.K. Rowling’s  Harry Potter  series and almost as big as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth mythology, which would include  The Hobbit, The Lord of the Ring,  and  The Silmarillion. That’s a lot of story to tell! Ideally, what the four companies involved in adapting this truly massive epic st