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Dark Tower may have failed at the box office which makes a sequel unlikely but
it will live on via TV. Idris Elba will not be a part of the series even though
producer Akiva Goldsman says he will have some involvement. Goldsman will be
producing the series which has added The Walking Dead executive producer Glen
Mazzara as the showrunner. The TV series will adapt the fourth book in the
series, Wizard and Glass, which was a prequel novel about the origins of Roland
Deschain, who Elba played in the film. Tower’s director Nikolaj Arcel did help
write the show’s pilot and said that the show and film would be a part of the
same canon but Stephen King told Vulture the series will be a full reboot: “The
major challenge was to do a film based on a series of books that’s really long,
about 3,000 pages. The other part of it was the decision to do a PG-13 feature
adaptation of books that are extremely violent and deal with violent behavior in
a fairly graphic way. That was something that had to be overcome, although I’ve
got to say, I thought screenwriter Akiva Goldsman did a terrific job in taking a
central part of the book and turning it into what I thought was a pretty good
movie. The TV series they’re developing now…we’ll see what happens with that. It
would be like a complete reboot, so we’ll just have to see.” The show will run
on Amazon who has also ordered a TV series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of
the Rings, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld and Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash. |
