Like the Loch Ness Monster, a movie adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower is something we’ve heard great tales about but have never seen. That could be changing soon though, as Deadline reports Sony and MRC have partnered to co-finance and distribute a film series based on the novels, with MRC developing a complementary TV series to run alongside the films.
Back in 2012, Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend) was preparing a new draft of the first installment in the proposed series for Warner Bros., and had things worked out, a complementary TV series would have been set up at HBO. However, Warners, like Universal before it, passed on the project, though it seems to have found new life at rival studio Sony.
This latest draft of the first film’s script is co-written by Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and is based on Goldsman’s earlier draft. It primarily culls from King’s first novel, “The Gunslinger“, which is set in a world woven with magic and centers on Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing after his adversary for many years.
