Flanagan Talks Dark Tower
Posted: November 11, 2024, 14:10
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NEWS - THE DARK TOWER
The Dark Tower Script Is Now Available
Posted: August 19, 2024, 23:56
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Flanagan Confirms Rights To The Dark Tower
Posted: December 8, 2022, 16:34
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FLANAGAN: You’re the first person we’re saying it to, but yes. Predating our deal with Amazon, we acquired the rights to The Dark Tower, which if you know anything about me, you know it has been my Holy Grail of a project for most of my life. We actually have those rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t mean that they can’t or won’t get behind it at some point — you don’t know. But that’s something we’ve been developing ourselves and are really passionate about finally getting it up on its feet at some point.
FLANAGAN: Well, to be honest, the way that I have seen it breaking out is five seasons of television, followed by two stand-alone features.
FLANAGAN: 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.
Thanks to Alex Maidy
Glen Mazzara Talks The Dark Tower
Posted: April 2, 2021, 22:00
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You can also chack out my reivew of the pilot here.
My Thoughts About The Dark Tower Pilot
Posted: June 8, 2020, 16:19
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This pilot has a lot that I missed from the movie version. The cast looks like they would have pulled it off and the plans Mazzara had for it could have, if done correctly, made this series the Dark Tower adaptation we all wanted and wished for when the movie was done.
Mazzara's Vision For The Dark Tower
Posted: May 28, 2020, 10:23
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"Season One ended with the death of Susan ... In WIZARD AND GLASS very quickly you go from the death of Susan to the death of Gabrielle, [Roland's] mother. I felt that I needed a season to give me real estate so that Gabrielle's death didn't step on Susan's, and that it felt like an escalation. Roland fails to save Susan, but he actually shoots and kills his mother. In the book, Gabrielle is not really a detailed character in a way that, say, Susan is, or even Rhea is. Gabrielle is really not fleshed out. She just doesn't have as many pages attributed to her. I love that character. The actress we had for her was Elaine Cassidy, a fantastic Irish actress, and she did a really great job.
So for Season 2, the war with Farson was building. I was maybe going to use the shapeshifter story [from WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE] as part of season 2, and get to the death of Gabrielle and either the fall of Gilead there or the fall of Gilead would be the season three premiere. Very quickly, there would be a last stand at Jericho Hill and by episode 3.03 or 3.04 I was going to have Roland stumble out into the desert, follow him into the desert and then I was going to do a time-lapse so that maybe you actually age Roland and switch actors. Then you have a new Roland reset the show at the top of season three, then go into THE GUNSLINGER and by the end of that season go into THE DRAWING OF THE THREE."
For more info head over to The Kingcast and listen to the full episode!
Photo Of Michael Rooker In The Dark Tower
Posted: January 19, 2020, 23:27
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Amazon Pass On Dark Tower Pilot
Posted: January 16, 2020, 08:49
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The Dark Tower TV series was designed to be independent from the 2017 film and was meant to be a more faithful retelling of the books than the movie was. The TV series started from the beginning with Wizard & Glass (many years before the events in the movie) and focused on the origin story of Roland Deschain’s (Sam Strike), how he became a gunslinger and his first conflict with The Man in Black (Jasper Pääkkönen).
Source: Deadline
Stephen Hopkins Will Direct Dark Tower Pilot
Posted: September 30, 2019, 15:16
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Source: Geeks WorldWide.
Thanks to Hans von Wirth
Photos From The Set Of The Dark Tower
Posted: June 17, 2019, 12:29
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Michael Rooker Cast In The Dark Tower
Posted: June 10, 2019, 14:12
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Michael Rooker confirms that he has been cast in Amazon's adaptation of The Dark Tower, currently filming the pilot episode in Croatia. Rooker’s role is still being kept under wraps though.Source: Michel Rooker Online
Susan Delgado Cast
Posted: May 22, 2019, 22:43
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Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Photos From Dark Tower Set
Posted: May 13, 2019, 19:07
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Thanks to Bev Vincent
Bronn Is Moving To Gilead
Posted: April 22, 2019, 10:47
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He says: “Game of Thrones has opened doors to some great stuff. I’m getting offered stuff I never would have.”
And his next part is another fantasy – one of his own. He will play a cowboy in the dramatisation of Stephen King’s seven-book Dark Tower series.
Jerome says: “I’ve always said I’d like to play a cowboy – and now one has come along. I’m excited for that.”
Thanks to Bryant Burnette
Dark Tower TV Show Casting News
Posted: March 21, 2019, 20:32
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The TV series is independent from the film and is supposed to be an adaptation of the forth book Wizard And Glass. That book take place many years before the events depicted in the feature and focus on Roland’s origin story, how he became a gunslinger and got his guns and meet his first (and only) love.
Update: Dark Tower TV Series
Posted: February 7, 2019, 22:33
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Amazon Studios is set to move ahead with production on their adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower books. The series, which will be comprised of 13 one-hour episodes, will be executive produced by a team of huge names led by Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), Akiva Goldsman (Titans, Star Trek: Discovery) and King.
Amazon Studios has begun looking to assemble a cast ahead of a mid-April start of production in Croatia, where the series is expected to film until late-June. It appears that part of the delay may have been, in part, due to efforts to distance the series from the 2017 film adaptation which was received poorly by fans and critics. The series will of course focus on Roland Deschain, a young boy from a long line of “gunslingers”, and his “ka-tet” comprised of Cuthbert Allgood, Alain Johns, Ileen Ritter and Jamie De Curry in addition to his girlfriend, Susan Delgado. The studio is currently looking at actors and actresses, ages 16-18 for all the roles listed above.
Marten Broadcloak will serve as the series antagonist and his affair with Roland’s mother, Gabrielle, will factor heavily into the plot. Her affair incites Roland to pick up his guns in a search for Broadcloak and sets his father, Steven, on a mission to find him. At this time, no offers have been made to talent, but the cast should begin to assemble quickly.
Thanks to Bev Vincent
Dark Tower TV Show Is Still Alive
Posted: June 12, 2018, 23:17
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DEADLINE: What is the status of other high-profile genre projects that have been in early development at Amazon or stuck in deal-making limbo for a long time, The Wheel of Time (based on the fantasy books), and The Dark Tower, (based on the book and the movie)?
SALKE: Those are scripts that I haven’t gotten yet. I’ll be seeing those, that material, in the coming weeks. None of those things are dead. They’re very much alive.
Looks Like The Dark Tower IS Heading To Amazon
Posted: April 10, 2018, 13:01
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Glen Mazzara tweeted this:
No word yet on when or if it will be a total reboot. After a visit to Mazzara’s twitter page it do looks like it will start with book 4…
Thanks to Herbert West
The Dark Tower TV Show On Amazon?
Posted: February 23, 2018, 22:04
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As part of the effort, Amazon made a mega deal for a Lord Of the Rings TV series and is developing a slew of high-profile titles, including The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash.
Thanks to Herbert West
Dark Tower TV Show Starts Filming This Summer?
Posted: January 23, 2018, 16:38
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Now we at Omega Underground have learned that production is expected to begin sometime this summer in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. For obvious reasons expect a brand new cast for the proposed series. It should also be noted no network has yet to pick up the project.
Glen Mazzara To Be Showrunner For Dark Tower TV
Posted: August 4, 2017, 00:45
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Thanks to Lou Sytsma & Rick Urban
Promoting The Dark Tower
Posted: August 1, 2017, 09:42
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The Dark Tower’ Director Says Television Series Will Be ‘Totally Canon
The Dark Tower’: How the Film Adaptation Will End Stephen King’s Saga With One ‘Last Journey
The movie is only 3 days away in the US and everyone is doing promotion for it. There was a special screening in New York yesterday. Matthew McConaughey visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Idris Elba visited Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
Here is also a clip of Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba talking The Dark Tower
Idris Elba Follows The Dark Tower To TV
Posted: July 15, 2017, 03:14
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The long-proposed The Dark Tower television spinoff is still on track, and Idris Elba will almost certainly be involved. For the past ten years, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Akiva Goldsman have been working on not only bringing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower book series to the big screen, but the small one as well. Long before Marvel had a shared film and television universe, the plan was for The Dark Tower to bounce back and forth between a film and season of TV. The idea sounded audacious at the time, but with the first movie finally arriving next month and the entertainment landscape changed, the Dark Tower TV show is still on track.
Before the movie can jump to TV, however, it needs to prove there’s an audience. The international Dark Tower trailer has continued to sell the adaptation, while everything from Dark Tower posters to a Funko line has been trying to get fans and newcomers excited for what could be the next big blockbuster franchise. In anticipation of the film’s success, it looks like the television show is moving along and will borrow at least one star from the film.
Deadline spoke with Goldsman, who’s both producing and co-writing The Dark Tower. According to him, not only has work begun on the TV spinoff, but Elba is very much involved:
“The first episode of a show has been written, and we hope to retain Ron’s original idea to mix platforms, something that seemed revolutionary 10 years ago but now is something that others have done. Idris for sure is part of this, and if the movie is Roland Deschain the gunslinger, the show is his origin story, based on the fourth novel in the series, Wizard and Glass.”
Thanks to Lou Sytsma.
The Dark Tower Map
Posted: September 22, 2016, 08:24
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The Dark Tower Heads For TV
Posted: September 21, 2016, 18:33
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MRC and Sony Pictures, which is releasing the film, have committed not just to financing a pilot but a full run of between 10 and 13 episodes, depending on how the scripts and story arcs develop. The Dark Tower show will begin shooting in 2017 with plans to premiere it in 2018, ideally around the time the film becomes available on cable or streaming services.
Elba has signed on to appear as older Roland alongside Tom Taylor, 15, who plays Jake Chambers in the film. That duo will serve as the framing device for the show’s central story, which takes place many years before the events depicted in the film. Since the series will be Roland’s origin story, a younger actor will be cast to play the aspiring gunslinger as a teenager, back before the realm of Mid-World “moved on” into chaos and bloodshed.
McConaughey’s involvement is a possibility, but not locked in. His character, Walter, is a semi-immortal who wields powerful, ancient magic and is a major element of Roland’s origin as a six-shooting knight, but in King’s books this sorcerer often takes on different names and appearances.
So, the character will be in the show, but he may be inhabiting the shape of another actor.
For more info, head over to EW
