Stephen King's Dark Tower to made into film trilogy and TV series!

[issreliant]

Universal and Ron Howard are bringing Stephen King's Dark Tower series to life with a trilogy of films with two television series set between the films. Now I am a huge fan of Sai King's Tower series, i believe it is his best story to date, but do you think that this idea will work? the idea of films connected to a tv series to extend the story is novel, but will it work? who will they cast as Roland and his Ka-tet? what parts of the books will be covered by the movies and what parts the tv series? and will you be willing to follow a storyline from movie to tv, to movie to tv, to movie again? who do you think should play roland and other characters? should the tv series be on cable? so what do you guys think?

 

[Dream]

I already started a topic about this...

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=128426

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Mark Verheiden to Co-Write THE DARK TOWER TV Series With Akiva Goldsma

Ron Howard will direct, Javier Bardem will play Roland Deschain.
Then NBC will premiere a Dark Tower television series to bridge the gaps between films. Deadline reports Mark Verheiden has signed on to co-write and executive produce the series with Akiva Goldsman (Fringe).

http://collider.com/mark-verheiden-the-dark-tower/85676/

that's the update at least.
Not sure how NBC will plan to not have this conflict with movie releases.

In a sense it's like CBS & Paramount and a Trek TV series while the JJVerse reboot is going on...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Agh! Dark Tower may be in trouble.

Universal's "Dark Tower" movie trilogy and interlocking TV series, seen as a hugely ambitious project from the start, may wind up being too big for the studio's appetite.

Sources tell Variety that in the past few days, the project, based on Stephen King's sweeping seven-book-and-counting series, has run into budgetary complications that have caused Universal execs to rethink original plans. Insiders expect U brass to meet in coming days to decide whether to put the project into turnaround, whereby producer Imagine Entertainment could shop it to another studio, either to partner with Universal or take over entirely.

To be clear: Sources tell Variety that as of Thursday, Universal is moving ahead as if the project is going forward. The studio had no comment.

Deadline's story.