{"id":21801,"date":"2012-08-21T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2012-08-21T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:55:01","slug":"is-dark-tower-getting-a-last-minute-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/21\/is-dark-tower-getting-a-last-minute-reprieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Is DARK TOWER Getting A Last Minute Reprieve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DarkTowerHeader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14978\" title=\"DarkTowerHeader\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DarkTowerHeader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DarkTowerHeader.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DarkTowerHeader-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, it looked like Ron Howard\u2019s ambitious adaptation of the Stephen King novel series <em>The Dark Tower<\/em> might have been dead in the water when Warner Brothers became the second major studio to pass on financing the three-film, two-television mini-series project. At the time, I noted that it seemed unlikely that another studio would come forward to pick up the project. But I guess I wasn\u2019t prescient enough to see that someone who wasn\u2019t a studio would step up to the plate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/did-warner-bros-just-bypass-gold-on-the-ground-by-dropping-the-dark-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Media Rights Capital is currently in \u201cserious talks\u201d with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment to fund the epic post-apocalyptic western.<\/p>\n<p>MRC is the group who helped fund Seth MacFarlane\u2019s comedy <strong>Ted<\/strong> and who are also backing Neill Blomkamp\u2019s upcoming science-fiction action film <strong>Elysium<\/strong> with Matt Damon.<\/p>\n<p>Although MRC does have a distribution deal with Universal, it is not readily apparent if the studio will release the film after already having passed on the project before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Ron Howard&#8217;s adaptation of the Stephen King series may not be quite as dead as we may have assumed.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/21\/is-dark-tower-getting-a-last-minute-reprieve\/\" title=\"Is DARK TOWER Getting A Last Minute Reprieve?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[350,4229],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ron-howard","8":"tag-the-dark-tower"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}