Once set up at Netflix, Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s production company Intrepid Pictures now has an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon MGM Studios – and one of the shows they’re working on for Prime Video is Flanagan’s dream project, a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. This project was officially announced three years ago… and while it’s still not clear when it’s going to be going into production, Mike Flanagan has confirmed that scripts for the first season are ready and King is “very happy” with them.
Background
We previously heard that Intrepid was able to get the Dark Tower rights because Flanagan sent Stephen King “a very, very detailed outline of what I wanted to do with it. And it was in response to that, that he gave us the rights. A project like this, I wouldn’t want to be involved in it at all If we were taking it in a direction that was going to be blasphemous to the Stephen King material, but he’s been very, very supportive and very excited about what we’d like to do with it.“
Flanagan previously made the King adaptations Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck, and is currently in post-production on an eight-episode series adaptation of Carrie. Earlier this week, it was announced that he’ll be writing and directing a new film adaptation of King’s The Mist – but before he gets to that, he’ll be making a new Exorcist sequel. He was set to write and direct a film adaptation of King’s novel Revival for Warner Bros. several years ago, but that project fell apart.
Many of Stephen King’s stories and novels are connected to The Dark Tower in some way, but the Dark Tower series itself consists of The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, and the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria.
Update
While speaking with Doof! Media, Flanagan said (with thanks to Screen Rant for the transcription), “The scripts for the first season are wonderful. I am so happy with them. Stephen King is very happy with them. He’s been through it with his adaptations. He’ll tell you he’s not pleased. And this one means more to him than any of the others, so the pressure is huge.“
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