Mike Flanagan Gives Update On "THE DARK TOWER" Series

While Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) hopes to give Stephen King’s epic story, “The Dark Tower” new life on the small screen with an ongoing series, the creator has no home for the project as of yet but is hopeful for the future.

"[My creative partner Trevor Macy and I] have The Dark Tower," the director tells Script Apart (via SFFGazette.com). "We carved it out from our Netflix deal, knowing we were leaving, and we carved it out from our Amazon deal as well, knowing that they'd already tried to do [a Dark Tower adaptation] and might be reluctant to do it."

"So, The Dark Tower doesn't have a studio. We don't have a partner on it yet, so I'm developing it myself, which is really a blast."

"And that's my dream project, you know?" Flanagan continued. "I've wanted to do that for so long. If we can get it off the ground, if we can actually get it going, I'm not ruling out Amazon's involvement down the line. Our relationship with them is brand new, so we'll have to see. But, yeah, I work on The Dark Tower in one capacity or another every day."

Flanagan acquired the rights to King's epic sci-fi fantasy tale last December, so it's obviously still in its early days.

We’ll bring you more as it develops.

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