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CONFIRMED: Dark Tower Movie Trilogy and TV Project Dropped By Universal Pictures |
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Monday, 18 July 2011 17:41 |
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The multi-tiered adaptation of Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower series is starting to look like a pipe dream. Long rumored to be up in the air, plans for development at Universal have officially been severed. First pushed back, then on hiatus, and now dropped. It's still possible that Ron Howard may move the project to another studio or scale back his extremely grandiose intentions to make a big-screen trilogy and tie-in television series (to feature the same cast).
Here's an exert from Deadlline about the crushing news:
The moment has come for Universal Pictures to fish or cut bait on The Dark Tower, the ultra-ambitious adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that was going to encompass a trilogy of feature films and two limited run TV series. The studio has said, No Thanks. Universal has passed on going forward with the project, dealing a huge blow in the Read more: |
