THE DARK TOWER Showrunner Glen Mazzara Reveals Story Plans For Scrapped Amazon Series

THE DARK TOWER Showrunner Glen Mazzara Reveals Story Plans For Scrapped Amazon Series

Amazon decided not to move forward with The Dark Tower series, but showrunner Glen Mazzara has now revealed what the plan was for the show, and which parts of Stephen King's books it would have adapted...

By JoshWilding - May 28, 2020 06:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: The Kingcast

The Dark Tower movie was a complete disaster, despite boasting an impressive cast led by Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Despite serving as a loose sequel to Stephen King's epic series of novels, it completely dropped the ball, but there was some excitement when it was revealed that The Walking Dead's Glen Mazzara had boarded a small screen version as showrunner. 

Unfortunately, Amazon ultimately decided not to move forward with that, but the executive producer has now shed some light on the direction the first few seasons were supposed to take. 

In an interview with The Kingcast (via Screen Rant), he explained that he would have started by adapting the events of the fourth book, Wizard and Glass, heading back to The Gunglinger's youth before picking up with him in that desolate future down the line. "Season one ended with the death of Susan. In Wizard and Glass very quickly you go from the death of Susan to the death of Gabrielle, [Deschain's] mother. I felt that I needed a season to give me real estate so that Gabrielle's death didn't step on Susan's and that it felt like an escalation."

Apparently, season two would have then touched on material not in the books, to flesh out some of the moments King only glossed over. "For season two, the war with Farson was building. I was maybe going to use the shapeshifter story as part of season 2 and get to the death of Gabrielle and either the fall of Gilead there or the fall of Gilead would be the season 3 premiere."

"Very quickly there would be a last stand at Jericho Hill and by episode three or four of season 3 I was going to have Roland stumble out into the desert, follow him into the desert and then I was going to do a timelapse so that maybe you actually age Roland and switch actors," he continued. "Then you have a new Roland reset the show at the top of season three, then go into The Gunslinger (Book one) and by the end of that season go into The Drawing of The Three (Book 2)."

For fans of The Dark Tower, this should all sound pretty perfect, and it's a shame Amazon chose not to move forward with the series. The fact it was quite a slow burn probably didn't help matters, of course, and there's been no word on it potentially finding another home down the line.

Are you guys disappointed the show didn't end up coming to fruition? 

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Repian
Repian - 5/28/2020, 6:47 AM
Now is the HBO Max opportunity. It would be great if they worked on a comic adaptation. A new beginning for Deschain that makes us forget the movie.
elgaz
elgaz - 5/28/2020, 6:53 AM
It’s perfect material for a series. The movie was 90 mins or something, which is ridiculous for such an epic series of novels, there’s no way they could do the story justice in that timeframe. Can you imagine Lord of the Rings being a 90 min movie?
FrankieDedo
FrankieDedo - 5/28/2020, 7:35 AM
@elgaz - The movie is the actual ending of the books' series. Its story is kinda different but it has a couple of indeniable references (the Horn of Eld, Randall Flagg talking about his "old company" and previous encounters with him) to the past cycles of Roland. Also, the ending shows that he gets to break the cycle. It was masked as a working-as-a-standalone movie, but it didn't make sense like that.

What would have been awesome was to create a series that would have ended showing how, after endless cycles, Roland lived through different bodies finishing with the start of the journey of Idris Elba's Gunslinger.
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 5/28/2020, 7:07 AM
Please do a Dark Tower series on HBO. That would be crazy
demery
demery - 5/28/2020, 7:09 AM
What's up with The Dark Tower in media? Is there a literal Dark Tower in effect somewhere that's somehow trying to ruin it's self-image for whatever reason?
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/28/2020, 7:48 AM
Would have rather had this show than the Stand on CBS All Access, tbh
Shroombeast
Shroombeast - 5/28/2020, 7:52 AM
@tmp3 - Same. Plus I actually have Amazon Prime. It takes a lot for me to pay for more streaming services these days.
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/28/2020, 7:53 AM
@Shroombeast - Also the Stand looks kind of shitty so far, and I don't trust Josh Boone to give something that dense justice, lol.
kamikaizer
kamikaizer - 5/28/2020, 8:17 AM
I had no idea this was cancelled. That really sucks :)
kamikaizer
kamikaizer - 5/28/2020, 8:17 AM
I meant :( lol
CurlyBill
CurlyBill - 5/28/2020, 9:12 AM
Is it so hard to just do a faithful adaption of the books? Higher Mike Flanagan as the show runner and put it on Netflix and you'll have a hit show.
CLTMAN29
CLTMAN29 - 5/28/2020, 10:16 AM
This is, almost for word for word, how I’ve said it should be done for the last ten years. It’s the best and most concise way. [frick] you Amazon.
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