Acclaimed genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan (“Midnight Mass,” “The Haunting of Hill House”) has been attached to an ambitious new adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” since at least late last year.
The project would mark his third go at translating a King work to screen following his film adaptations of “Gerald’s Game” and “Doctor Sleep”. Reports regarding this take are huge though, with the project said to encompass both a five-season television series and two movies.
With the actor’s and writer’s strike having stalled everything in development, it comes as no surprise work on this has ceased to. Appearing on Fangoria’s The Kingcast for this week’s episode however, Flanagan has quickly reassured fans it’s still happening.
In fact, he confirms not only is the project in a good place right now, but it will be his number one priority when the strike ends:
“I feel really good about where we are. Oddly, where we are at the moment is completely frozen, because of the strike, but we had a wonderful spring with it and we’re making enormous progress on it. And I have every reason to believe that on the other side of the strike, it’s gonna be priority #1.
We have great partners on it that I can’t talk about, and we’ve got some really exciting actors circling on it that I can’t talk about, and we have some potentially groundbreaking approaches to the filmmaking of it that I just can’t really talk about … but what I can say is that my fears that any momentum we had developed was gonna be obliterated [by the strike], well, I don’t really worry about that.”
The episode involves a larger discussion of King’s work “Dolores Claiborne,” and touches upon another King adaptation with “The Life of Chuck”. Head over to The Kingcast to hear the full episode.
