‘The Dark Tower’ Finally Getting a TV Series

When The Dark Tower lastly made its approach from Stephen King’s books to the massive display screen in 2017, the plan was for the film to guide into some form of spinoff tv collection. But The Dark Tower was a main flop, grossing simply $113 million worldwide, and acquired dreadful evaluations. Any plans to proceed the story elsewhere just about ended there.

Since then, no less than one different try has been made to get a Dark Tower TV present on the air, however it too fell aside. Now one more try at a Dark Tower collection is being mounted by Mike Flanagan, the man behind Netflix collection like The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Midnight Club, and the director of the Stephen King variations Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep.

Flanagan advised Deadline The Dark Tower is his “Holy Grail” undertaking, one thing he’s “dreamed about” for greater than half his life. Here was the present standing of and imaginative and prescient for his adaptation:

I wrote a pilot, we view it as a as a collection that’s going no less than 5 seasons. And having lived with this undertaking so long as I’ve, I’ve an infinite quantity of it labored out in my mind. But I’ve a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a very detailed define for the primary season and a broader define for the following seasons. I feel ultimately, if we’re capable of get it going, there are another writers I need to fold into that course of whom I’ve labored with earlier than; I feel they’d be actually fabulous for a very small, intimate writers room the place we will proceed to interrupt it.

Flanagan mentioned that his model of the fabric is completely completely different than the 2017 movie (that means don’t anticipate to see Idris Elba because the Gunslinger or Matthew McConaughey because the Man in Black). But he additionally mentioned past 5 seasons of TV, he might additionally see the present then being adopted by “two stand-alone features.”

Flanagan is a very proficient man and a good horror filmmaker. Hopefully he can succeed the place others prior to now has failed (specifically director Nikolaj Arcel). When The Dark Tower got here out, I wrote…

The Dark Tower left me confused and infrequently very irritated, however not essentially bored. Part of that’s as a result of the film has been minimize to the bone; at 95 minutes, it’s at all times transferring ahead, typically to its detriment. (A slower film would have deepened the characters and introduced out their motivations for members of the viewers who don’t already know that stuff from the novels.)

The earlier Dark Tower was so disappointing, there’s just about nowhere to go however up. But it’s nonetheless going to be fairly a problem to tug off.