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The Dark Tower Arrives in 2017

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By Carly Fjeld on August 13th, 2015

After years of rumors, the world will finally get a theatrical release of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. We’ll just have to wait until 2017.

As of 2007, the film was in the hands of J.J. Abrams and fellow Lost creator Damon Lindelof after King said that he, “trusted them,” and sold them the rights to Tower for just $19. However, the pieces wouldn’t fall into place. Abrams and Lindelof were busy with the final seasons of Lost and were hesitant about taking on such an enormous vision. In an interview with USA Today, Lindelof explained that they would not move forward with the project saying, “You’ll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of The Dark Tower than me, but that’s probably the reason that I shouldn’t be the one to adapt it. After working six years on Lost, the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time.”

Then Universal Pictures snatched it up and revealed plans to adapt the story into three films and two seasons of a television series. Ron Howard would direct and Akiva Goldsman would write. Universal even announced the release date for the film, May 17th, 2013. Javier Bardem was even offered the lead role, but obviously none of this came to fruition. Universal canceled, and then it was shopped to Netflix and then HBO, but ultimately, Tower crumbled.

Now there is new hope. Danish director Nikolaj Arcel is at the helm and Sony Pictures is fast-tracking the project. Media Rights Capital is still on track to produce an accompanying television series. So far no word on how many films have been given the green light nor have any casting decisions have been made, but expect those to be announced soon if they want to get this party started.

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