Mike Flanagan reveals he wrote ‘The Dark Tower’ pilot: ‘I’ve been dreaming about this half of my life’

A week ago, the duo formed by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy announced that their production company Intrepid Pictures would leave its more than six-year contract with Netflix, where they created key horror series such as ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ or “The Haunting of Hill House”. Midnight mass’, starting with the competition: Amazon. Now, Flanagan claims that before signing the contract he had too a very ambitious project at hand: to bring “The Dark Tower” to the small screen. The writer, who according to Variety has already written the first chapter, seems confident in turning the Stephen King saga into a series.

Flanagan wants the series to run for five seasons. Have you had time to think about it? “For more than half my life, I’ve closed my eyes and been able to watch it unfold. I’ve been dreaming about this”invoice. “Having lived with this project for as long as I have, I’ve largely worked it out in my head”. Indeed it is already clear to him that the foreground will be the first sentence of the first book, ‘The Gunslinger’, which “It’s an image I’ve had in my mind since I was a student. At some point it’s going to have to get out of there, I really need to get it out of my head…”.

He is certainly not the first to have had the idea: HBO wanted to make a series based on the Stephen King book saga in 2011, while Amazon also considered the idea in 2020, but canceled the project after the failure of the Glen’s pilot. The walking dead). It didn’t help either the failure of Nikolaj Arcel’s 2017 film adaptation, The Dark Tower, in which not even its two great leads, Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, could save him. However, Flanagan seems very confident. In his favor he plays what he has already experience adapting the prolific writer’s lyrics, having co-created “Doctor Sueño” and “Gerald’s Game” with Macy.

Amazon’s next project?

“Prior to our deal with Amazon we acquired the rights to ‘The Dark Tower’ which, to those who know me, has been my holy grail for most of my life”Flanagan says. In fact, despite the enthusiasm for the new stage on both sides, the project is outside the signed contract. “It doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t support it at some point, you don’t know. But it’s something we’ve developed ourselves and we’re passionate about making it work at some point.”. However, they close the door to nothing: “If it’s something they might be interested in, we’d be delighted”.