Will Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER Finally Find A Home On Netflix?
House of Cards has been a huge success for Netflix, but would they ever be tempted to attempt an adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower? After all, it's a project which has been stuck in development hell for as long as any of us can remember! Read on for details.
The Dark Tower was at one point set to be adapted into a trilogy of movies and a couple of TV spin-off's which, when combined, would have done the sprawling Stephen King penned book series justice. Rush director Ron Howard signed up to helm the first instalment from screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and Javier Bardem was even in talks to play Roland Deschain. However, budgetary concerns led to Universal pulling the plug and it has since been stuck in development hell as Warner Bros. ultimately passed on it as well before Media Rights Capital considered having a go at financing it. Well, Collider now reports that Netflix Chief Creative Offficer Ted Sarandos has revealed that he has talked to Howard about bringing The Dark Tower to Netflix.
"I spoke to Ron about it, actually. The last time we talked about it the thing was being kicked about HBO – but it’s no longer there. Once Arrested Development gets through we’ll keep talking about it."
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