An adaptation of Stephen King’s seven-book series, “The Dark Tower,” has come to a grinding hault. Warner Bros. has passed on the project. This is the second studio to drop this particular project, Universal walked away last year. It was reported that the Universal deal fell through due to budget issues.
Sources believe that it is the pressure of translating such a bestselling novel into a film or tv movie, without upsetting fans, that lead to the companies moving away from the project.
The Dark Tower series began in 1982 with THE GUNSLINGER with new volumes appearing every five years or so. Here’s the description of The Dark Tower series from Stephen King’s website.
The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World’s post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it.
Inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, and Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western classics, The Dark Tower series is an epic of Arthurian proportions. It is Stephen King’s magnum opus, and is the center of his amazing creative universe.
