Stephen King's The Dark Tower [Potentially] Coming to Amazon As a Series

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Stephen King's The Dark Tower Getting TV Adaptation by Haunting of Hill House Creator

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is being turned into a TV show. According to Deadline, the ambitious project is in the works from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures under a new deal with Amazon Studios.

“I wrote a pilot. We view it as a series that’s going at least five seasons,” said Flanagan. “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.”

 

[Mr. Negative]

It shoulda been a series in the first damn place. You can't fit 8 books worth of mind screw, time fukkery, universe hopping and gun busting into a 2 hour movie.

 

[NeoSeeker]

Should've been a TV series from the start.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Also waiting on The Talisman. It's supposed to be done by Netflix. Hopefully it'll lead them to doing Black House, and possibly other Dark Tower tie-ins (*cough*INSOMNIA*cough*)

one can only hope.

 

[KFBF]

Hope they don't fukk it up. Though I've enjoyed most of their adaptations.

 

[Tunez]

So that's why he left

 

[Lootpack]

Flanagan is a big get. This would have been golden on HBO and I’m still a bit saddened the adaptation couldn’t go through there years ago. I’m…cautiously optimistic for now.

It shouldn’t shock anybody when Kate Siegel inevitably gets cast.

 

[Flex Grossman]

In Mike Flanagan we trust

 

[Ironman]

This isn't an old story right? I remember Amazon tried to do a Dark Tower series before then it got killed. We back?

 

[VBM]

This isn't an old story right? I remember Amazon tried to do a Dark Tower series before then it got killed. We back?

Correct. Different director. Amazon's Scrapped Dark Tower Series Sounds Intriguing as Hell

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Hope it's fire like season 2 of Castle Rock

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

so what happened to this

 

[VBM]

so what happened to this

Update from December

“It’s moving,” Flanagan recently told Empire when asked about the project's status. “We’ve got a lot of scripts done for it. It’s the first priority.”

To elaborate on that statement, Flanagan is currently working on an 8-episode adaptation of Carrie for Amazon (reports state that it just wrapped filming), which is set to be released in 2026. It seems that after his commitment to that series is complete, Flanagan will then turn his attention to The Dark Tower.

The horror filmmaker went on to say that, in his view, the 2017 adaptation starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey fell so far short of expectations that he doesn’t want it to stand as the final live-action version of the story.

"We can’t let that be the final word. We really can’t," he admonished.

Flanagan and his creative partner, Trevor Macy, signed a first-look deal with Amazon back in 2022, following a previous setup at Netflix.