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The Dark Tower Is Taking Forever for a Reason
“The only way to do it is to just do the books.”
Since 2022, the horror filmmaker has been at work on a new television adaptation of the Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, a dark fantasy saga centered on the battle between a knightly gunslinger and an evil sorcerer known as Randall Flagg, “The Man in Black.” With eight books to work off of, Flanagan admitted to New York Comic Con he’s intimidated by the epic story series widely regarded as Stephen King’s literary masterpiece. Asked by Josh Horowitz of Happy Sad Confused how he’s trying to approach the material, Flanagan replied: “These are the questions that keep me up at night.” But he may have a silver bullet. Sounds deceptively simple, but “the thing about The Dark Tower that’s so incredible is Stephen King builds an astonishing universe and it’s huge.” (That explains what’s taking so long.)
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