A deal to adapt Stephen King's masterpiece Dark Tower for both the big and small screen with Universal was announced via Deadline.
Director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and Akiva Goldsman are set to adapt the book series into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series that, that will unfold simultaneously across both formats. Ideally the viewer would watch the first film, the first season of the show, the second film, the second season of the show, and then the final film.
Howard has committed to direct the first feature and first season of the series which will follow in close proximity. Goldsman will write the film and the first season of the series which Grazer, Goldsman and King himself will produce.
Howard says the story's scale and scope requires a big screen budget, but a series allows them the time to explore the characters and their various nuances. Characters from the films and shows would crossover, while sets from the films will be reused on the series which would help cover the expense of such an undertaking.
The story follows Roland Deschain, the last living member of a knightly order of gunslingers and humanity’s last hope to save a civilization that will crumble unless he finds the mythical Dark Tower. Howard described the world of the Dark Tower as a post-apocalyptic Sergio Leone landscape.
Which books will be incorporated where is presently unknown, though the second season of the show is expected to be focused on Deschain as a young gunslinger using material from the prequel comic book series.
J.J. Abrams Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse tried turning the property into a film recently, but it fell apart. Howard, Grazer and Goldman are wasting no time getting going hrtr, with Howard making this his next project once he finishes work on The Dilemma
Goldsman is already writing.the first script
King already offers up some casting ideas to EW that made me chuckle
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