Stephen King clarifies that he is not writing the adaptation of Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower

When it comes to adaptations of his work, Stephen KingMost of the time, it maintains the distance generally by allowing the filmmakers to do their things. But every now and then he jumps in himself by writing scripts, modeling the vision and ensuring that his fingerprints are throughout the final product.

Therefore, when the relationships that King was actively involved in writing emerged Mike Flanaganthe next adaptation of The dark towerIt seemed a big problem. Unfortunately, in reality it is not so.

The source of the confusion comes from a recent interview in which King was asked about the long -awaited adaptation of his epic fantasy/western/science fiction saga. Gave a carefully formulated response:

“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. “

The latter part was prophetic because he certainly aroused things. King shared Blusky: “Contrary to the Internet (which is usually never wrong), I’m not writing for the dark tower of Mike Flanagan”.

Given the involvement of King’s past in projects such as The story of Lisey where he wrote all eight episodes e The standWhere he co-scored the ending with his son Owen, it was not a trait to assume that he was adopting a practical approach with The dark tower. But that hypothesis proved to be wrong.

So, what did it actually refer to? Even if he has not explicitly clarified, the best hypothesis is that he is talking about his work on a sequel to The talisman AND Black house.

These novels, written with Peter Straub, have some connections to The dark towerThe universe “in particular, in the middle of the world, so his comment may have referred to that project.

Yes, it’s a little disappointing, but I still think that Flanagan will offer incredible adaptation and King is adding another chapter to one of his most loved series of books.

For now, we wait, hope and keep our fingers crossed for a Dark tower Adaptation worthy of the material of origin.