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Three years aft it was announced, Mike Flanagan is person than ever to bringing his bid adjustment of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower to life.
The acclaimed scary filmmaker called nan upcoming bid an “oil tanker” arsenic he shared an update connected his and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures return connected King’s bid of books that were released from 1982 to 2012.
“It’s moving,” Flanagan told Empire Magazine. “We’ve sewage a batch of scripts done for it. It’s nan first priority.”
Following nan 2017 Nikolaj Arcel-helmed characteristic adaptation, Flanagan said, “We can’t fto that beryllium nan last word. We really can’t.” Starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, nan movie presently holds a 16% professional standing connected Rotten Tomatoes.
In 2022, Flanagan told Deadline exclusively that he’d completed a aviator script for nan adaptation, which he envisions arsenic moving for 5 seasons, followed by 2 stand-alone movies.
“You’re nan first personification we’re saying it to, but yes,” he said astatine nan time. “Predating our woody pinch Amazon, we acquired nan authorities to The Dark Tower, which if you cognize thing astir me, you cognize it has been my Holy Grail of a task for astir of my life.”
Flanagan added, “We really person those authorities carved retired of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t mean that they can’t aliases won’t get down it astatine immoderate constituent — you don’t know. But that’s thing we’ve been processing ourselves and are really passionate astir yet getting it up connected its feet astatine immoderate point.”
Amazon Studios antecedently opted not to prime up a Dark Tower series from executive producer/showrunner Glen Mazzara and MRC successful 2020.
