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The Dark Tower stories, by Stephen King, have remained something of a live-action Holy Grail for creatives. Many have tried to adapt it, and all have failed. Their efforts either die in the early stages, usually when some executive says, “I just don’t get it!”, or anything moving forward gets so butchered as to be unrecognizable. Such as the 2017 movie that disappeared without a trace.
Now, somebody who really knows their way around the source material is taking a run at it. Mike Flanagan has been working on this for a while, and now he says he is closer than ever to getting this off the ground.
It was more than three years ago that Flanagan moved from Netflix to Amazon, and word broke that he was planning a five-season and two-movie-long adaptation. Then… silence.
In an interview with Empire, Flanagan
“It’s moving. We’ve got a lot of scripts done for it. It’s the first priority.”
When asked about the 2017 movie, he simply replied:
“We can’t let that be the final word. We really can’t.”
Any King fan knows about The Dark Tower, with its blend of western, dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It follows Roland the Gunslinger, a man who wanders a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of the structure that stands at the nexus of time and space. He is locked in a race against time to find it before The Man in Black.
Flanagan most recently finished his Carrie mini-series remake, and wrote the script for Clayface at DC Studios that was fast-tracked on the basis of its quality. He will shortly direct a new entry in The Exorcist series.
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