Mike Flanagan, who has directed two previous Stephen King adaptations - Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, as well as being the showrunner on The Haunting on Netflix, has left Netflix for Amazon and has acquired the rights for a screen adaptation of The Dark Tower, King's 7 (technically 8) book magnum opus that he started writing in 1969 and finished in the mid-2000s.
In a very very ambitious statement, Flanagan says he has a pilot script, season outlines, and imagines 5 seasons and 2 feature films, which seems really reaching for it.
This is my favorite book series and has a presence that is almost a little creepy in how much fans of it think about it and feel its presence on a day-to-day basis. It rings a lot of "I can't quite place the feeling" bells and its world building is just spectacular. A large part of me would prefer they never make a film version of it, but I can't help but wonder what a proper series with multiple seasons would look like.
This would have nothing to do with the 2017 abomination with Charles Minor and alright, alright, alright. Oddly, just a couple of years ago Amazon looked primed to do a series as well, and had some really exciting casting calls, including Bronn from GoT and Michael Rooker from GOTG both in it, and was supposed to start with the events of the fourth book, Wizard & Glass, which is a bit of a prequel.
I'm sure this thread will eventually go the way of The WInds of Winter and the third Kingkiller book, but the Dark Tower is such a fascinating thing that I always have to post about it
In a very very ambitious statement, Flanagan says he has a pilot script, season outlines, and imagines 5 seasons and 2 feature films, which seems really reaching for it.
This is my favorite book series and has a presence that is almost a little creepy in how much fans of it think about it and feel its presence on a day-to-day basis. It rings a lot of "I can't quite place the feeling" bells and its world building is just spectacular. A large part of me would prefer they never make a film version of it, but I can't help but wonder what a proper series with multiple seasons would look like.
This would have nothing to do with the 2017 abomination with Charles Minor and alright, alright, alright. Oddly, just a couple of years ago Amazon looked primed to do a series as well, and had some really exciting casting calls, including Bronn from GoT and Michael Rooker from GOTG both in it, and was supposed to start with the events of the fourth book, Wizard & Glass, which is a bit of a prequel.
I'm sure this thread will eventually go the way of The WInds of Winter and the third Kingkiller book, but the Dark Tower is such a fascinating thing that I always have to post about it
