It’s a big week for things first announced in 2010, as the prospective combo film & TV adaptation of Stephen Kings beloved fantasy-horror series The Dark Tower is back on.
Deadline reports Sony & MRC will produce The Dark Tower alongside Imagine Entertainments Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins, as well as King himself. The project was first set up at Universal and then Warner Bros. with Howard set to direct the first film in an ongoing franchise that would see three films and a television companion. The site reports Akiva Goldsman & Jeff Pinkner have co-written the latest draft, logically based heavily on the first Dark Tower novel, The Gunslinger, and a television series is still in development. Howard does not appear to be directing, as Sony and MRC are out to filmmakers.
The Dark Tower itself is the saga of gunslinger Roland Deschain on an epic quest to reach the titular construct in Mid-World. The entire series of novels is some of Kings most incredibly realized work. Of the revived adapation, the author says, Im excited that The Dark Tower is finally going to appear on the screen. Those who have traveled with Roland and his friends in their search for the Dark Tower are going to have their long-held hopes fully realized. This is a brilliant and creative approach to my books.
Previously both Javier Bardem and Russell Crowe were up for Roland Deschain, but no star will be set until director is.
