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Stephen King fans have high expectations of Mike Flanagans attempt to bring The Dark Tower to screens in the coming years, but there is a lingering doubt about whether Kings sprawling Western fantasy time-traveling horror adventure (you can see why it is a big ask to adapt) can ever be done justice. Much of the trepidation around adapting the eight novel series, and its interconnected short stories and novels, comes from the disastrous release of the 2017 movie adaptation starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Now screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has addressed how there is very little to be said about that movie, other than it failed.

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*Availability in US Release Date August 3, 2017Director Nikolaj ArcelCast Katheryn Winnick, Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis HaysbertRuntime 95Main Genre ActionWriters Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel,...

Of course Paul Riforati is not Michel Rabagliati — he has a different name, see?

But Rabagliati has now given us about 1200 pages of comics — not all of which have made it into the English language, true — about Riforati and his life. They may all be completely fictional: Paul may just be someone born at about the same time as Rabagliati, living in the same places, having the same jobs, with all of the emotional and story content entirely unconnected to Rabagliati’s life.

Sure. That’s plausible, isn’t it?

We don’t know Rabagliati personally. We almost never know a creator personally. So he could have made it all up.

But I don’t think so. What a creator does is not so much “create,” which implies making something out of whole cloth, but transforming. And the Paul stories are one of the finest examples of life transformed into...

LONDON -- An eclectic mix of U.S. and international names headlined by lead Damian Lewis and including Daryl Hannah, Virginie Ledoyen and John Malkovich have signed up for Raoul Ruiz's period flick Love and Virtue, producers said Monday.

The cast also includes Peter O'Toole, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Leonor Varela, Vincent Perez, Michael Madsen, Melvil Poupaud, Anna Massey, Cristian de la Fuente, Max Ryan, Alexa Rey and Boo Boo Stewart.

Lewis plays the hero, Orlando, a knight in King Charlemagne's court who is in love with Ledoyen's Angelica, in the picture which is based on legends The Song of Roland and Orlando Innamorato.

From an original script penned by Mia Sperber and Stefano Pratesi, the movie is set to start shooting March next year on location in Belgium, Luxembourg and then London.

Sperber is producing for U.K.-based banner Fountain of Life Prods. alongside Alex Sullivan for The Leo Media and Entertainment Group.

Co-producers are Jimmy de Brabant and Bob Bellion of Delux Productions with Kwesi Dickson of Future Films.