The Dark Tower
| studio | Universal Pictures |
| director | Ron Howard |
| writer | Akiva Goldsman, Stephen King |
[TV] Could Netflix Produce New “Buffy,” “Twin Peaks” Episodes; ‘The Dark Tower’?
From Mr. Disgusting: You guys have no idea how lucky you are. The technological leap we’ve made over the past 5 years is astounding and has created so many opportunities for beloved fan projects to regain footing. No longer will network television have a stranglehold on deciding the fate of the show if not enough millions of people watch it. READ MORE
Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ Goes, Well, Dark… (Then Lights Back Up!)
Update: Media Rights Capital is in serious talks to take on The Dark Tower, reports Deadline. MRC’s Modi Wiczyk is a big fan of the Stephen King novel series. MRC next has the Neill Blomkamp-directed Elysium with Matt Damon. READ MORE
Russell Crowe To Climb Ron Howard’s ‘Dark Tower’?!
Warner Bros is getting a new script from Akiva Goldsman for the first installment of Stephen King’s mammoth Western The Dark Tower, and within two weeks, the studio will be making a decision on whether to green light the first leg of one of the most daring and ambitious projects to come along since The Lord Of The Rings, reports DL. READ MORE
‘The Dark Tower’ Still Standing?
Between this and the Arrested Development movie Ron Howard seems to baiting eternal harassment from the fans of projects that are never really going to happen. READ MORE
Lights Officially Go Out on Uni’s ‘Dark Tower’
Universal has officially placed the ambitious multiplatform franchise The Dark Tower in turnaround, a very black and cold place in Hollywood terminology. READ MORE
Lights Officially Go Out on Uni’s ‘Dark Tower’
Universal has officially placed the ambitious multiplatform franchise The Dark Tower in turnaround, a very black and cold place in Hollywood terminology. READ MORE
Hollywood Horror: A Capsule History of Stephen King’s Showbiz Career
By far the most adapted American author in Hollywood history, Stephen King’s novels and short stories have served as the basis for over 100 movies, short films, miniseries, and TV shows since his first book, Carrie, was made into a hit 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma. While subsequent adaptations have been anything but consistent – for every Misery or The Mist there are three times as many stinkers – there’s no overlooking the fact that King’s career is now irrevocably intertwined with the Hollywood machine. READ MORE
It’s Official, Javier Bardem Offered Lead in ‘The Dark Tower’!
About an hour ago the NY Post ran a story that Christian Bale has pulled ahead of Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen as Ron Howard and Stephen King’s choice for The Dark Tower main character, gunslinger Roland Deschain. Apparently they forgot to “check their sources.” READ MORE
Javier Bardem the Top Cow for Ron Howard’s ‘The Dark Tower’
Ron Howard’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has set off a casting frenzy in Hollywood. Agents are tripping over themselves to land their clients coveted roles in what promises to be a blockbuster film (trilogy) and television franchise. Leading the pack for the principal character, Roland Deschain, is Javier Bardem (the scary dude in No Country for Old Men), with Viggo Mortensen a close second, sources tell the NY Post. Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have a deal with Universal that will translate into a TV show and three movies, all using the same cast. Brian Grazer will produce with Goldsman and King. According to reports, they plan to start with an epic movie, then continue the story with the TV series, followed by a second film, and then a second TV season showing gunslinger Deschain as a young man. Then, the third movie will end the saga with Deschain as an older man. (more…) READ MORE
Ron Howard Quick Draws 3 Names for ‘The Dark Tower’ Trilogy
It’s Friday night and I want to kick back, eat some Pizza Hut and watch a movie – so I’m gonna be this snappy. Director Ron Howard chatted up The Dark Tower with the LA Times, and openly revealed a few potential actors who could don the role of gunslinger Roland Deschain in the live-action adaptation: “As this point in the process, most filmmakers would never engage in casual banter about the possible actors but Howard didn’t dodge the topic and nodded when names such as Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman and Jon Hamm were mentioned.” He added, “Sure, those are some names and on ‘The Dark Tower’ fansites they’re all about Viggo [Mortensen].” The Stephen King books chronicle the mysterious The Gunslinger as he travels across a desolate and vaguely post-apocalyptic landscape in his quest for a black tower. Portals along the way eventually allow contact with our own modern world. Expect three films, the first in theaters May 17, 2013. (more…) READ MORE
Release Dates: ‘Drive Angry,’ ‘The Dark Tower,’ ‘Ouija’ and ‘Abraham Lincoln’
Update: Fox will release Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in theaters on June 22, 2012. We have a couple of new boxoffice adjustments before the weekend. Summit Entertainment will release Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer’s Drive Angry 3D in theaters on February 25, 2011, two weeks later than previously scheded. Universal Pictures has locked the Hasbro board game adaptation of Ouija, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, for release on November 9, 2012. Lastly, Ron Howard’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower kicks off the summer of 2013 on May 17. You can get details on all three released by clicking any title above. (more…) READ MORE
Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ Becomes Epic New Franchise!!
Universal’s film and TV divisions are joining forces to adapt Stephen King’s epic fantasy series The Dark Tower The companies will produce three films and a TV shows based on King’s seven Dark Tower novels, short stories and comic books. Ron Howard is confirmed to direct the first film, along with the first season of the TV show, which will be written by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman. The books chronicle the mysterious The Gunslinger as he travels across a desolate and vaguely post-apocalyptic landscape in his quest for a black tower. Portals along the way eventually allow contact with our own modern world. More inside. (more…) READ MORE
‘The Dark Tower’ Adaptation Erodes
it was big news for us horror fans when J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield producer) revealed he was adapting Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” with “Lost” collaborator Damon Lindelof. While back in May they were all over the project, which is a series of seven books that incorporate themes from multiple genres, including fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror and western elements, it now looks as if J.J. Abrams has moved on. (more…) READ MORE
J.J. Abrams Heading to King’s ‘Dark Tower’
During an interview with IGN (watch it below, J.J. Abrams reveals that J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof — the two brains behind the ABC television series “Lost” — have been working on an adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel series The Dark Tower. “Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King,” Abrams explains. “We got the rights for ['Dark Tower'] as a film. Damon is obviously still on ‘Lost’ and we’ve been working on ‘Star Trek’ together. As soon as ‘Lost’ is done, hopefully we’ll begin tackling that.” You can find a bit more on this over at MTV or read on for the short clip. The Dark Tower is a series of seven books written by American author Stephen King between 1970 and 2004. (more…) READ MORE
Lost Producer Takes a Trip to King’s ‘Dark Tower’
AMC discovered that “Star Trek” and “Lost” Producer Damon Lindelof is working on bringing Stephen King’s DARK TOWER to life. “The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.” Click here for the full interview. (more…) READ MORE
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