The Dark Tower

‘The Dark Tower ‘Still Happening

Universal Pictures may no longer be involved but the movie and television adaptation of The Dark Tower series is still going ahead, at least according to producer Brian Grazer. A reduced budget and a better ending being the main reasons for his confidence. A huge cross-platform adaptation of Stephen King’s opus The Dark Tower was...
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Universal Cheapens ‘The Dark Tower’

The Dark Tower adaptation is still happening, just on a tighter budget, apparently. A week ago we learned that the planned trilogy of movies with a connecting TV series in between of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower had been put in doubt by studio angst over the budget. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Dark...
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Financial Doubts Over ‘The Dark Tower’

Worries over the budget have caused pre-production on The Dark Tower to come to a halt. According to Deadline, all the staff who were prepping for production on the trilogy of movies and trilogy of TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s opus have been put on hiatus by Universal Pictures. The studio fears the budget...
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Ron Howard Talks ‘Dark Tower’ Casting

J.J. Abrams may no longer be taking on the momentous challenge, but Ron Howard is gearing up to bring Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the big screen, and the small screen as well. Rather him than me, I have to say. Why do I not envy Howard this task? Because it’s going to be...
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‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Trilogy Is On

A series of movies based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has been a long time coming but many thought it would never actually happen. And it’s certainly an ambitious aim to bring such an epic and sprawling story to life on the big screen. J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof finally persuaded King to give...
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‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Back On?

Last year, the possibility of a movie or set of movies based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower came to light. J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof looked set to finally be about to bring the seven-book (with another one allegedly on the way) series to the big screen. However, despite much excitement at the prospect,...
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Abrams Abandons ‘The Dark Tower’

I guess we should have seen this one coming. When J.J. Abrams Damon Lindelof spoke back in May of adapting Stephen King’s The Dark Tower into a series of movies, I wondered whether I was dreaming. Here was one of the best director/creator teams talking about bringing one of the best works by one of...
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‘Lost’ Creators Plan ‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Series – Best. Thing. Ever?

When one of your favorite director/creator teams talk about working on turning one of your favorite book series into movies immediately after finishing work on one of your favorite television shows, you tend to think you’ve drifted off to sleep at the computer and had a vivid and wildly fantastic dream. But I think I’m...
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