Collapse Of The Dark Tower Project?

Universal Pictures may be having second thoughts about making Ron Howard's "film trilogy and two TV season" adaptation of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" says  Variety.

The project is encountering budgetary complications which has the studio suits to rethink the original plans.

Meetings are set to happen in coming days to determine whether to put the project into turnaround which would allow the team to shop it around and either bring another studio in as a partner, or let another take it over completely.

Deadline adds that Universal has put pre-production staff on hiatus as they discuss ways to bring down the budget. One thing's for certain, the September start date is no more.

The move isn't without prescedent  Universal pulled the plug on director Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft 's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" over  the $150 million budget that the R-rated project would require.

A project of this scale will cost considerably more--The studio is being cautious but it has a viable property just the same. Stay Tuned...