Stephen King’s Dark Tower series has been resting its movie rights on the high dusty shelves of JJ Abrams Bad Robot for a while now and the itchy fingers of the devils idle hands want to see him make that film.
But its not going to happen. Not yet anyways.
[Abrams] said last month he won’t be making Dark Tower, and now Abrams tells MTV the movie won’t be happening at all for a while. “The Dark Tower thing is tricky,” Abrams began. “It’s such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now.”
Personally I would rather see Dark Tower become JJ’s new TV series to fill the gap that Lost will leave.
Its an epic story, and what I feel will be FAR too vast to be contained in a single film. JJ’s gift for character development and revealing mystery and a driving need to see the next episode would make him a perfect fit for bringing the feudal magical western medieval fantasy series to life.
I am not a big Stephen King fan as I tend not to like horror novels, but the Dark Tower series had me at Hello.
