Stephen King confirmed that he would be part of Mike Flanagan’s TV adaptation of his book The Dark Tower series.

T he vast universe that makes up The Dark Tower book series has long vexed Hollywood talents hoping to adapt Stephen King’s lofty fantasy epic, but horror mastermind Mike Flanag

The Doctor Sleep director acquired the rights to Stephen King’s opus almost three years ago. He plans to do a faithful adaptation of the books as a series, something that makes a lot of sense and is refreshing if you were unlucky enough to see the Dark Tower film adaptation in theaters.

Flanagan, no stranger to adapting King’s work (he’s directed Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Life of Chuck) is taking on the sprawling narrative of the novels after a notorious failed 2017 Dark Tower movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba.

Details surrounding Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower adaptation have been scarce in the three years since it was first announced. But we finally have an update on the project — and it’s an exciting one. Flanagan has enlisted the ideal collaborator in developing this infamously hard-to-adapt series: Stephen King himself.

Mike Flanagan is bringing Stephen King's The Dark Tower novel franchise to Prime Video. Here's what we know about this series so far.

Stephen King is writing Mike Flanagan's adaptation of The Dark Tower – and I am very, very excited. "All I can say is, it's happening," King told IGN at a roundtable in support of his newest adaptation,

It's more than two decades later, and I still have a bit of a hard time accepting how Stephen King killed off Randall Flagg in The Dark Tower. Flagg is undoubtedly Stephen King's greatest villain, showing up again and again in his books to sow chaos and thwart the protagonists,