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The Dark Tower: Mike Flanagan officially working on series adaptation of Stephen King saga

Posted 4 years ago

Genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House, etc.) recently told us that an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga was his dream project, and that he and his producing partner Trevor Macy are “going to...

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The Dark Tower: Mike Flanagan shares more of his vision for the Stephen King adaptation

Posted 4 years ago

For years, genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House, etc.) has been saying that his dream project would be an epic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga. Back in 2020, he said,...

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Exclusive: The Dark Tower: Mike Flanagan would love to take a shot at adapting the Stephen King classic

Posted 4 years ago

One of pop culture’s newest masters of horror, Mike Flanagan, is about to have his new series, The Mightnight Club, unleashed on Netflix. Drawing inspiration and its title from the 1994 novel by Christopher Pike, this ten-episode series was created by...

Mike Flanagan wants to make The Dark Tower and a prequel to The Shining

Posted 6 years ago

Warner Bros. was so enthusiastic about director Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation / THE SHINING sequel DOCTOR SLEEP (watch it HERE) that – before the film was released – they made a deal with Flanagan to develop a prequel called...

Stills released for the cancelled Dark Tower Amazon series pilot!

Posted 6 years ago

THE DARK TOWER is basically author Stephen King's LORD OF THE RINGS (which is something he himself has claimed). It's a high-fantasy novel series, that – instead of a Medieval Tolkein-esque world of elves, dwarves, and orcs – is set...

Amazon’s The Dark Tower series was to have Stephen King as a character!

Posted 6 years ago

So, when THE DARK TOWER film was announced a few years ago – based on the dark fantasy series by Stephen King and starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey – a parallel Amazon series was also announced. However, after the (abysmal)...

Showrunner Glen Mazzara discusses scrapped Dark Tower TV series

Posted 6 years ago

The recently launched podcast The Kingcast, which is dedicated to the works of Stephen King, has gotten off to a very interesting start. So far they've had Kumail Nanjiani on to do a deep dive into THE RUNNING MAN with...

The Dark Tower showrunner incredibly proud of abandoned Amazon series

Posted 6 years ago

As many of you know, Amazon shot a pilot for a planned TV series based on Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER book series last year. Then last week we learned that Amazon has passed on producing the rest of the series because...

Amazon has already canceled The Dark Tower TV series

Posted 7 years ago

As many of you know, Amazon shot a pilot for a planned TV series based on Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER book series last year. And tonight we learned that Amazon has passed on producing the rest of the series...

Amazon has passed on The Dark Tower pilot

Posted 7 years ago

The Dark Tower just can't catch a break. Stephen King's sprawling epic series spent many years in development hell on its way to becoming a feature-film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, which was unfortunately a critical failure, but hope...

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