Stephen King confirms that he is writing for the adaptation of the dark tower of Mike Flanagan: “It is happening”

Stephen King’S The dark tower He had a long winding road for adaptation and this time it seems that he is finally making the treatment fans wait.

Mike FlanaganThe director behind Sleep doctor AND Game’s gameHe worked on a faithful adaptation of King’s Magnum work and now King himself has confirmed that he was directly involved.

During an interview with the UGS F to Fest 2025 for his next film The monkeyKing was asked if he would have contributed with a new material in Flanagan Dark towersimilar to how an epilogue wrote for the The stand Miniseries in 2020. His answer?

“Everything I can say is that it is happening. I’m writing things now and I think it’s all that I want to say because the next thing you know, I will exist a lot of things that I don’t necessarily want to arouse yet. At this moment they are underway and saying too much looks like a Jinx. “

For a long time Dark tower Fan, this is a big problem. King started writing The GunslingerThe first book of the series, in 1970. The story embraces seven novels and is deeply intertwined with almost everything else I have ever written.

His involvement in Flanagan’s adaptation could mean anything, from small improvements to the new new material. If his work on The stand The miniseries is any indication, it is possible that it is expanding some arches of characters or filling the gaps.

Whatever King is adding, I’m sure he will adapt perfectly to Flanagan’s vision. The director was firmly convinced that his adaptation attacks himself as close as possible to the material of origin. In 2022, Flanagan said:

“It looked like books. The way not to do The dark tower it is trying to transform it into something else, to try to do it Star Wars or do it Lord of the Rings. “

He added: “That’s what it is, what it is is perfect. It is as exciting as all those things and equally engaging. It is a story about a small group of people, all the probability all over the world are against them and gather. As long as it is, it will go well and there will not be a dry eye at home. “

This should be a relief for fans after the disappointing Dark tower Film in 2017, which tried to condense King’s tentacular saga in a single 95 -minute film. Idris Elba AND Matthew McConaughey He did what they could like Roland and The Man in Black, but the patchwork of the film of events from the whole series did not land with fans or critics.

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. “

There is still no word when Flanagan Dark tower It will enter production, but I am excited to see what Flanagn offers.