If you’ll recall back in 2016, HBO was reportedly working on a series based on the books, that wouldn’t have a damn thing to do with the Sony 2017 feature film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. It would be a world built upon worlds, and something that I could sink my teeth into as a fan.Remember when Amazon purchased a very substantial set of literary IP to develop into series and such? We remember, and we remember that one title in particular had our interest- Stephen King‘s “ The Dark Tower.” Illustrated by Michael Whelan Hell, I could make up my own Stephen King-like stories about The Dark Tower or maybe just connect with other fans. What am I going to do in that metaverse? I don’t know. To me, this is the kind of imagination worthy of the term metaverse. Or better yet, you could let readers and players take these worlds and make them their own. It was a whole collection of stories, all under one roof. You could use those links to figure out the common threads between those stories. You could take all that and turn it into a digital metaverse of virtual worlds, linked together. But I’m one of those die-hard fans.īy linking dozens of novels and other creative works together and telling a very big story, King got the last laugh on people who felt his work never deserved the label of being epic. And Amazon canceled a TV series based on it.
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I realize they made a critically panned movie about the first story. He wove works like The Wastelands and The Seven Samurai into the tapestry of The Dark Tower, which eventually became eight novels and more than 4,250 pages. With the ideas of parallel worlds and time travel, he made it so these characters - like the villain of The Stand, Randall Flagg - could appear over and over across all of his books across decades of writing. He had an idea of building a set of worlds and characters and stories that were all linked. But he was worldbuilding, and he created backdoors in these worlds into a larger meta story. King was often criticized for his works of horror, from Carrie onward, and he was considered a literary schlockmeister producing the worst pulp fiction.īut he started with this idea and then seemingly left it buried for decades. I am talking about Stephen King and his magnum opus, The Dark Tower series. The series was about his interpretation of what happened when a knight approached the Dark Tower. And he read the poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, by Robert Browning. He was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian legends, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
It was kind of like the idea of linking books from the original Myst by Robin and Rand Miller.
Each individual creation had its own meta story. Eliot’s The Wasteland and themes of heaven and hell and the end of civilization.
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My idea of an entertaining metaverse involves the work of a young writer who long ago studied as an English major and explored rich works that were full of literary references, like T.S. MetaBeat will bring together metaverse thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 3-4 in San Francisco, CA.
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