His final series at Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher, will do the same with the oeuvre of Edgar Allen Poe.įlanagan went on to explain that his vision for The Dark Tower includes five seasons of a TV show, followed by two movies to complete the sprawling, complicated story. He has also proven adept at retelling and remixing the works of other well-known authors such as Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House, Henry James in The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Christopher Pike in The Midnight Club. Flanagan later followed this with Doctor Sleep, a sequel to King's novel The Shining which also had the unenviable task of bridging the gap between that book and Stanley Kubrick's iconic film-all of which he deftly achieved. One of his earliest projects at Netflix was an adaptation of Gerald's Game, one of a very small number of books in the author's back catalogue that had been widely deemed unfilmable. Of course, he has a strong track record when it comes to turning books by Stephen King into hits. A project like this, I wouldn’t want to be involved in it at all If we were taking it in a direction that was going to be blasphemous to the Stephen King material, but he’s been very, very supportive and very excited about what we’d like to do with it."įlanagan has spoken before about his longstanding desire to adapt The Dark Tower, calling it his "dream project of all dream projects" in a Men's Health interview earlier this year. "And it was in response to that, that he gave us the rights. "This happened because I sent a very, very detailed outline of what I wanted to do with it," he continued. But that's something we’ve been developing ourselves and are really passionate about finally getting it up on its feet at some point." "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. "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," Flanagan said in a recent interview with Deadline, clarifying that this ambitious undertaking will be separate from his Prime deal. Following the recent announcement that he would be partnering with Amazon Prime Video once his Netflix deal is over, horror maestro Mike Flanagan has just confirmed his next project: a TV adaptation of Stephen King's epic fantasy saga The Dark Tower.
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