Universal’s film and TV divisions officially working to adapt Stephen King’s epic fantasy series The Dark Tower. Ron Howard is set to direct the first film and first season of the TV show, which will be written by Akiva Goldsman, bridging to the second film, with the TV series then showing The Gunslinger as a young man as a bridge to the third film and then more if they get to it.
I’ve been waiting for the right team to bring the characters and stories in these books to film and TV viewers around the world, King said. Ron, Akiva, Brian along with Universal and NBC have a deep interest and passion for the The Dark Tower series and I know that will translate into an intriguing series of films and TV shows that respect the origins and the characters in The Dark Tower that fans have come to love.
The worlds of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series are richly detailed, inter-locking and deeply connected, Goldsman said. By telling this story across media platforms and over multiple hours and with a view to telling it completely we have our best chance of translating Roland’s quest to reach The Dark Tower onto screen. We are proceeding with tremendous excitement, fidelity to the source material and, quite frankly, no small amount of awe at this opportunity.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
