The Dark Tower Archives

It's been nearly two months since we last checked in on how things were looking with Mike Flanagan, Trevor Macy, and Intrepid Pictures' upcoming adaptation of bestselling author Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" novels as a television series (along with two stand-alone films set within the universe) – and things were sounding pretty "optimistic" (Flanagan's word)[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Mike Flanagan, Stephen King & The Dark Tower, The CW's The Winchesters, FX's Justified: City Primeval, Amazon's Reacher, TNT's AEW Rampage, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, The Walt Disney Company, FOX's WWE SmackDown, The CW's The Flash, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Disney+'s Andor, Wondery's[...]

Just before 2022 turned into 2023, Stephen King fans were treated to the excellent news that Mike Flanagan, Trevor Macy, and their Intrepid Pictures had secured the rights from King to adapt the author's "The Dark Tower" novels as a television series With a minimum of five seasons in mind, the deal is separate from[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes DC Studios co-head James Gunn responding to rampant DCU rumors, Michael Connelly offering both literary & live-action "Bosch" updates, Mike Flanagan & Trevor Macy getting their chance to climb Stephen King's "The Dark Tower," The CW's DC's Stargirl series & character creator Geoff Johns discussing the series finale, Amazon[...]

Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Omnibus Slipcase Set Stephen Kings The Dark Tower The Gunslinger Omnibus Slipcase Cover Technically this might be two omnibus, but this set goes almost every time for well over $500, and some of those are not new A used copy shipping from the UK, increasing the postage greatly, was sold[...]

While Warner Bros' Doctor Sleep (2019) didn't do as well as hoped for, Mike Flanagan, the director, and writer has hopes for another Stephen King IP in The Dark Tower While promoting his latest project, The Haunting of Bly Manor for Netflix, Flanagan spoke to SyFy Wire about his other horror projects In addition to[...]

Earlier this week, it was announced that Amazon Studios was passing on the series pilot for Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels, with initial reports being that Amazon executives did not feel it was as strong as other big-ticket pilots that were given greelights like Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings[...]

Such is the case with the proposed series adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels, with Amazon Studios announcing that the streaming service is passing on the pilot. According to initial reporting from Deadline Hollywood, Amazon executives did not feel that the pilot as strong as the ones that were given greelights (with[...]

Leaving behind the land of the dead and the cold embrace of outer space, genre legend (and we're sure someone who can call Danny Trejo a close friend), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy) has joined Amazon's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels News of the casting was[...]

The Dark Tower, a rare Stephen King-adapted misfire, was shunned by critics and audiences alike upon its theatrical release in 2017 and producer Ron Howard has some ideas to why. While promoting his latest documentary Pavarotti, Howard spoke to MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast about the changes made in the film adaptation from King's popular series. "I[...]

Sounds like Game of Thrones' Ser Bronn (Jerome Flynn) is heading to another notable fantasy book series-turned tv show, as he's reportedly been cast in Amazon Studio's The Dark Tower (which will have NOTHING TO DO with the Idris Elba 2017 film). In a recent chat with the UK's Mirror, Flynn revealed he'd been cast in the series as[...]

Back in February of 2018, Amazon Studios nabbed a bunch of book titles for series options including such fantasy epics as The Wheel of Time, Ringworld, and The Dark Tower. Perhaps you'll recall that at one point, HBO was working on a Dark Tower series in conjunction with the Sony feature film, but that really didn't pan out the[...]

Banks Consider Phlebas TV series adaptation, there were some other big properties mentioned. About halfway down in the Deadline writeup of the Banks news, there is this drop of information: "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[...]

Amazon's recent deals include series/projects based on Lord Of the Rings, The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash. Deadline Hollywood Credit: Macmillan Amazon Studios continues its push into epic, big scope series programming, securing global rights to bring Iain M Banks' sci-fi adventure novel Consider Phlebas to series television The first in the[...]

Stephen King thinks Columbia Pictures made a big mistake in adapting his fan-favorite series The Dark Tower to film last summer According to King, the movie should have had an R-rating King cites the studio's decision to make a PG-13 Dark Tower as the primary problem with the film in an interview reflecting back on the year[...]

Netflix recently released their film adaptation of the Stephen King story Gerald's Game, starring Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, and we liked it!

It seems that Sony isn't putting the cart entirely before the horse when it comes to The Dark Tower When the television show was announced as a tie-in to the movie, no one was really surprised The mythology behind that series is huge and impossible to tell over the course of a single movie However,[...]

Under siege from poor word of mouth and bad reviews, The Dark Tower made just $7.7 million at the box office on Friday, heading toward an estimated opening weekend of $19 million The movie might not even manage to beat Dunkirk, in its third weekend, if things get any worse, though it's currently projected to[...]

I think movies like Deadpool and Logan to some degree. Whether or not we're going to see another The Dark Tower movie is still up in the air The movie is not fairing well critically but the buzz is it still might take the opening weekend The budget isn't very big, $60 million, and there hasn't[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Dark Tower takes bits and pieces of Stephen King's rich mythology to create a bare bones adaptation that will enrage fans and bore everyone else. Director: Nikolaj Arcel Summary: The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him[...]

Jae Lee was the artist that brought Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower, to comic shops with the first three series from Marvel: The Gunslinger Born, The Long Road Home and Treachery then coming back later to do the Battle of Jericho Hill His dark, unique style set the stage for one the series[...]

The movie adaptation seems to be no different, and this new TV spot released by Sony Pictures appears to highlight some of those Easter Eggs we can see in this movie. https://youtu.be/r1bitCJXyHUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE DARK TOWER – Easter Egg (In Theaters August 4) (https://youtu.be/r1bitCJXyHU) Over on social media it was time[...]

For the first time, as a fan, I've watched a trailer for The Dark Tower and actually feel a little hope in my heart (aside from the casting) Sony has put out a new international trailer for the upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King epic and it's the best trailer for the movie that we've[...]

The Dark Tower is a movie that seems to be sneaking up on us For a studio that loves to do so much marketing they spoil half the movie they have been oddly quiet about this one There have been a few trailers, a few posters, a few TV spots, but nothing to the level[...]

 Good or bad, the big screen versions of his paperback stories have usually netted pretty good box office returns, and Sony is hoping to cash in on the next film, The Dark Tower. A new almost 2 minute long featurette was released just a little bit ago from Sony Pictures, with leads Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey talking about their respective[...]

We have some new footage for The Dark Tower in the form of what appear to be TV spots in all but name The first one seems to have the most new footage while the last one really helps drive home how dangerous the Man in Black really is This movie is two months away[...]

Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world. The Dark Tower will be released on August 4, 2017. The fans of the beloved Dark Tower books by Stephen King have been waiting for a movie to come along and capture the magic of the series While[...]

Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world. The Dark Tower will be released on August 4th. If the tower falls, our world falls with it #DarkTowerMovie pic.twitter.com/FU8ghPRZgd — Dark Tower (@DarkTowerMovie) May 19, 2017 Summary: The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where "the world[...]

Diamond Select Toys has released official images for their toys and statues for The Dark Tower film, based on the novels by Stephen King. The 7" figures of The Gunslinger/Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) and The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) depict the characters in their most stern-faced poses, ready for action The figures will come with diorama backdrops[...]

It's like Sony is trying to convince us that The Dark Tower is really happening First we get some actual footage this morning and now we have two character posters posted by Stephen King himself and two motion posters as well Summary: The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where "the world has[...]