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Inside the interview, Flanagan said, “Predating our deal with Amazon, we acquired the rights to The Dark Tower, which if you know anything about me, you know it has been my Holy Grail of a project for most of my life. 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”
IGN spoke to Flanagan back in October about the prospect of the franchise growing again. Make no mistake about it, he’s completely entranced by the idea of another adaptation of the Stephen King book series.
“I keep coming back to it because it has its own gravity,” Flanagan told IGN. “It would just be a question of taking the more fantastical elements that might be harder to connect to, especially where it gets pretty meta at mid-point, and grounding it, just pulling it in. Otherwise, the characters are who they are, the arc is what it is. And I think the way not to do The Dark Tower is to try to turn it into something else, to try to make it Star Wars or make it Lord of the Rings. It’s what it is. What it is is perfect. It’s just as exciting as all of those things and just as immersive and it’s a story about a tiny group of people and all the odds in the whole world are against them, and they come together. As long as it’s that, it’ll be fine, and there won’t be a dry eye in the house.”
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