All things follow the Beam…
We have more details on Midnight Mass’ Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower adaptation and we’re still giddy at the thoughts of finally seeing Roland Deschain and Mid-World being properly adapted on the big and, it seems, small screen.
The Dark Tower on screen has not been an easy journey so far with a terrible (but ambitious) movie adaptation already existing waaaay back in 2017 and Glen Mazzara’s filmed but never released pilot at Amazon in a dark vault somewhere, where no-one will ever see it (more on that at the bottom of the page) but now Flanagan, who has just finished his latest Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck, feels like his long gestating project is proceeding well and, like the original plans back in the day, before the 2017 movie, will be a TV and cinematic journey.
“I do see feature components to some of the other stories, but the main storyline is ongoing series,” Flanagan says.
“That thing’s launching an oil tanker. But we’re working on. It was stalled first by me moving from Netflix to Amazon and stalled again by the strikes. It’s progressing, and we’re further along than we’ve ever been on it.”
Based on Stephen King’s eight-book epic take, The Dark Tower tells the story of Roland Deschain, the last of the Gunslingers and a man tasked with a mission to save the Dark Tower, the nexus of reality and the structure holding all worlds together. It’s a big story and, if done right, will also encompass numerous other King books and stories as his was a shared universe long before Marvel decided it was cool.
But what of his currently in-development next chapter in The Exorcist saga? Will it cause problems for the Dark Tower development? “Oh, it’s not in the way,” Flanagan recently remarked, “They coexist very well. I think the trick with The Dark Tower is just it’s still just takes an enormous amount of time to get going. But we’re further along than the last time we spoke.”
I’ve waited a long time for a proper Dark Tower movie and/or TV series and I’m happy to wait longer because Flanagan understands King and his material better than most and if one man can make it happen, it’s him.
Ka, after all, is a wheel.
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Read Glen Mazzara’s script for The Dark Tower (filmed but never released) pilot on amazon:
Now, speaking of the Dark Tower and what could have been, remember the adaptation that never aired on Amazon after they filmed the pilot that I mentioned above? Well, the incredible script written by showrunner Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead, The Shield) is available to read on The Stunt List right here: https://www.officialstuntlist.com/stuntlist-2024
Glen Mazzara breaks down what The Dark Tower Amazon series would have been
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Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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