Mike Flanagan, Answering Fans’ Prayers, Will Adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
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By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 8, 2022 10:57 am EST
In news that will be music to the ears of many, Deadline reports that horror aficionado and tireless storyteller Mike Flanagan and his producing partner, Trevor Macy, have acquired the rights to what most consider to be Stephen King’s most “unfilmable” story ever put to words. In an interview with the outlet, Flanagan has revealed that he’s officially begun work on his “dream project,” an adaptation of “The Dark Tower,” that already consists of a written pilot script and entire season outlines (that’s right, plural) for an ambitious television series. But wait, there’s more! According to the report, Flanagan has planned this adaptation as a five-season television series that could be followed by two feature film spin-offs.
In Flanagan’s own words:
Mike Flanagan sets his sights on The Dark Tower
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With that said, that hasn’t stopped Flanagan from diving headfirst into his plans for how to bring this lifelong ambition to the small screen under his Intrepid Pictures production company. He goes on to explain:
Flanagan goes on to say that acquiring the rights to “The Dark Tower” only came about after receiving King’s blessing. Should all go according to plan, we’ll soon be hearing much more about his take on the legendary man in black and the gunslinger.
“I wrote a pilot, we view it as a series that’s going at least five seasons. And having lived with this project as long as I have, I have an enormous amount of it worked out in my brain. But I have a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a very detailed outline for the first season and a broader outline for the subsequent seasons. I think eventually, if we’re able to get it going, there are some other writers I want to fold into that process whom I’ve worked with before; I think they would be really fabulous for a very small, intimate writers’ room where we can continue to break it.”
