The bigger and more popular a fantasy series is, the higher the expectations of the fans. What the cinema adaptation The Dark Tower felt 6 years ago, which turned out to be a big flop. The new start of the series implementation of Stephen King’s saga by horror genius Mike Flanagan is now sending extremely positive signals.
The great fantasy hope lives: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower comes as a series
The long-fought fantasy project The Dark Tower fell flat in 2017 with audiences and critics and did not even play its budget of 60 million US dollars in the USA. Although the film eventually grossed 113 million worldwide, that wasn’t nearly enough for a sequel. So died the intended fantasy series already with their first film and also the series reboot that started after this story of failure threw in the towel.
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But as of last December, we know that a new series adaptation of The Dark Tower is being prepared on Amazon Prime: by none other than Netflix’s Horror Masters Mike Flanagan (Haunted Hill House, Midnight Mass). Even the Dark Tower creator Stephen King gave his blessing.
Mike Flanagan promises finally successful fantasy adaptation of The Dark Tower
Director Mike Flanagan now fed expectant fantasy fans a new sign of life and revealed that it despite the Hollywood strike, I am in good spirits about the remake:
Although we just froze because of the strike, I have a good feeling. We had a wonderful spring and have tremendous progress made. When the strike is over, [Der Dunkle Turm] top priority have.
Although Flanagan is not officially allowed to reveal much, his promising hints already want to reinterpret Stephen King’s fantasy world:
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We have great partners that I’m not allowed to talk about. We have exciting actors in prospectthat I’m not allowed to talk about. We have some potentially pioneering approaches to filmmaking, about which I must also remain silent. But what I can say is that my fears about the project that was just getting off the ground have been completely erased. […] Everything is going very well.
The 8-volume book template for The Dark Tower * by Stephen King was published between 1982 and 2004. In the fantasy saga with sci-fi, horror and western elements, we follow the epic journey of gunslinger Roland deschain through his native mid-world. His destination is the titular tower, the center of the multiverse. In the fight against his opponent, the man in black, he is supported by companions like the boy Jake or the drug dealer Eddie from our world.
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