Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series of novels is being adapted for movies and television. Also planned? A “very ambitious game component [...]that will further utilise elements from the books,” says an AICN source.
Best-selling author Stephen King points up and rips down the double-standard of what’s tolerable in violent films, compared with video games, in a brilliant op-ed for Entertainment Weekly. You should take a look at this, because as a creator of worthy stories filled with violence and suspense, he speaks with real authority. Plus, it’s great to see this kind of defence in a mainstream medium.
King’s been writing horror novels for nearly four decades, many of them reaching the big screen, some of them even winning Oscars. And he rightly points out that to a politician, a 17-year-old can see gruesome flicks like Hostel or Saw, but would be a danger to society playing the less graphic Grand Theft Auto or Hitman series.
Then he loses it on a bill before the Massachusetts state legislature, and it gets good.
