The Dark Tower Movies

The Dark Tower Movie News on the Internet

Below I've listed the most recent and interesting news about the upcoming The Dark Tower movies. I'll update these links with the most recent news at the top as the news comes in.

January 14, 2011 - Ron Howard's Dark Tower to Be Six Hour Miniseries - Slashfilm reports that after the initial cinematic release of the first The Dark Tower movie, the followup will be a six episode television miniseries. Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen were mentioned as potential candidates for the role of Roland Deschain, but Howard also said there were other names on the list.

January 7, 2011 - Naomie Harris the Frontrunner for the Part of Susannah - The MTV Blog reports that actress Naomie Harris is the frontrunner for the role of Susannah in the upcoming The Dark Tower movies. (They also mention that Stephen King has mentioned Angela Bassett as being perfect for the role, but age considerations make that unlikely now.)

December 17, 2010 - Ron Howard's Plans for The Dark Tower - Director Ron Howard states that he's obsessed with the project. He also mentions that this is different from anything else he's directed in the past. The article also compares King's The Dark Tower to the King Arthur myth, The Lord of the Rings, and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Jon Hamm, and Viggo Mortensen were all mentioned as potential contenders for the lead role of Roland Deschain.

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The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower is Stephen King's self-proclaimed tour-de-force masterpiece. Fans of the books have looked forward to a movie version of the series for years. It seems like soon they'll be getting their wish, as Ron Howard is now attached to the project. And it even looks like the project will happen in multiple media, including motion pictures and television.

The purpose of this page is to provide current information and news about The Dark Tower movies.

Here's what we know so far:

The Dark Tower Movies, Television Series Rumors of a The Dark Tower movie series surfaced in April 2010, but the news was officially confirmed by Universal Studios and Stephen King on September 8, 2010. The original announcement was that the series of novels would be adapted into a trilogy of motion pictures along with two television series bridging the gaps between the films.

On October 29, 2010, Universal Studios issued a press release that stated the first movie would be released May 17, 2013.

Ron Howard is attached as the director, and Akiva Goldsman is attached as the writer.

Earlier Rumors

Rumors and discussions of a film version of the series are nothing new. In 2007, the rumor mill was reporting that JJ Abrams (of Lost and Star Trek fame) was attached to the project. And in 2009, Damen Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the two primary writers of Lost, said in an interview that they were attached to the project too.

All three indicated in later interviews that the idea of spending so many years on another project after spending so much time on Lost was not something they wanted to do. They were also intimidated by the scope of the project, and afraid of screwing up a series that they were such big fans of.

It seems as if that's when Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman became the new show-runners.