Stephen King's iconic novel series The Dark Tower heads to the small screen with a new TV adaptation

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Five years after Sony Pictures' underwhelming movie adaptation, Stephen King's iconic novel series The Dark Tower is heading to the small screen.Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) is creating and executive producing a new TV adaptation of The Dark Tower through the Intrepid Pictures company he runs with Trevor Macy, according to Deadline.The news comes just days after Flanagan and Macy's Intrepid Pictures signed a new overall deal with Amazon Studios (after four years at Netflix), though it's unclear if Amazon - which had a different Dark Tower pilot in development in 2018 before it was shuttered in 2020 - will board the project or not.

Small screen: Five years after Sony Pictures' underwhelming movie adaptation, Stephen King's iconic novel series The Dark Tower is heading to the small screen Mike and Trevor: Mike Flanagan (left, The Haunting of Hill House) is creating and executive producing a new TV adaptation of The Dark Tower through the Intrepid Pictures company he runs with Trevor Macy (right), according to Deadline Flanagan revealed that both he and Macy had acquired the rights to The Dark Tower from author King himself, after sending him a 'detailed outline' of how he envisions the series.Their acquisition of The Dark Tower rights pre-dates their new deal with Amazon, which was announced last week. 'We actually have those rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t mean that they can’t or won’t get behind it at some point — you don’t know.

But that’s something we’ve been developing ourselves and are really passionate about finally getting it up on its feet at some point,' Flanagan said.