Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy have announced that they have acquired the rights to make a TV series adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower".
"Predating our deal with Amazon, we acquired the rights to ‘The Dark Tower,' which if you know anything about me, you know it has been my Holy Grail of a project for most of my life. We actually have those rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn't mean that they can't or won't get behind it at some point - you don't know. But that's something we've been developing ourselves and are really passionate about finally getting it up on its feet at some point," said Flanagan.
Flanagan and Macy acquired the rights after Amazon let them lapse. The streamer made it only to the pilot stage of the project.
"This happened because I sent him a very, very detailed outline of what I wanted to do with it," said Flanagan about speaking to Stephen King about the series. "And it was in response to that, that he gave us the rights. A project like this, I wouldn't want to be involved in it at all If we were taking it in a direction that was going to be blasphemous to the Stephen King material, but he's been very, very supportive and very excited about what we'd like to do with it."
Before their deal closes out, Flanagan and Macy have another project due out from Netflix titled "The Fall of the House of Usher", which will be a re-telling of the Edgar Allan Poe story.
