Stephen King calls The Dark Tower Adaptation by Mike Flanagan “Perfect”

Writer and director Mike Flanagan It is difficult to work on the development of a cinematographic and standard adaptation Stephen King’S The dark tower Stories for Amazon Studios. King saw what the director has cooked and says he is “perfect”.

In a recent episode of The Kingcast, guest Eric Vespe bold The dark towerAnd while King didn’t offer much, he said:

“I saw scripts and shots. Start where it should start. The beats are perfect. They are simply perfect.”

King continued to joke about the fact that Flanagan is “the whispering king”. This is as regards Flanagan’s reputation to be able to do an excellent job by adapting King’s work.

The dark tower It is made up of eight novels and follows the character Roland Deschain and his ka-tet in an epic research to reach the tower.

Flanagan has been working on the project since 2022 and his plan is to start with a simple story and then go from there. In that story, Roland is pursuing the man in black. The opening line of the dark tower is “the man in black fled through the desert and followed him the gunsome”.

Flanagan said: “These are the questions that keep me awake at night. The only way to do it is just making books. The thing about the dark tower that is so incredible is that Stephen King builds a surprising universe and is enormous.

“It is populated with such a wealth of characters, scale and brought, in the end, but that story begins with a person who follows another person in the sterile desert.

“It is one of the greatest opening lines of all time. This is how you do it. You start with two people and a simple story. One is trying to capture the other. That’s all. It takes an eternity. “

The director had previously explained: “That thing is launching an oil tanker. But we are working. He was blocked first by me who moved me from Netflix to Amazon and stall again from the strikes.

“He is progressing and we are further on how much we have never been there. I see components of functionality of some of the other stories, but the main plot is the ongoing series. “

As for life in life, Flanagan has made fun of the fact that “they have some potentially innovative approaches in the cinema”, but has not offered any detail of what it could be.

When Flanagan announced the project for the first time, he said that the pilot script is “one of my favorite things to have ever worked on”. He shared at that moment:

“I wrote a pilot, we consider it as a series that is going at least five seasons. And having lived with this project throughout the time, I have a huge amount that worked in my brain.

“But I have a pilot script of which I am enthusiastic and a very detailed scheme for the first season and a wider scheme for the following seasons.

“I think that in the end, if we are able to do it, there are other writers that I want to bend in that process with which I worked before; I think they would be really fabulous for a very small and intimate writers where we can continue to break it.

“I will tell you, more than half of my life, I closed my eyes and I was able to look a lot about this game, I dreamed of this.

“That first shot that detaches himself to the first incredible phrase of the first book, The Gunslinger, I had that image that the little bit in my head has made me since I was a student. In the end he will have to get out of there, I really need to remove it from the head.

“The pilot screenplay is one of my favorite things I have ever worked on. He was surreal to work on this. So we were paved and grateful that Stephen King trusted us with such a business, something so precious for him, and we hope to find the right partners to make it. “

I can’t wait to see what Flanagan does with this!