However, noted Stephen King fan Mike Flanagan has opted to take another stab at the complex horror property.

In the same interview, King jokingly called Flanagan the “King Whisperer.”

King notoriously despised Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shining, and spearheaded a TV adaptation in 1997 that was poorly-received.

Roderick in Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher with the teens from The Midnight Club

The pilot episode for aDark TowerTV series was produced in 2019, but the series wasn’t picked up.

Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower Cast Rumors

Will Any Of Flanagan’s Familiar Cast Return?

Flanagan would go on to retweet that post and make his own heartfelt post about the actor.

A composite image of Maggie looking serious in front of Cal looking off in the distance in Sullivan’s Crossing

Unlike the previously rumored cast members, Kohli makes sense to play Roland.

Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower Story

How Will The TV Series Approach The Epic Novels?

Either way,The Dark Towercould be the most ambitious Stephen King adaptation ever.

Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs looking offscreen in NCIS: Origins

The Dark Toweris a multimedia franchise based on Stephen King’s epic series of eight novels.

The series blends elements of dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, and Western genres.

The series blends elements of dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, and Western genres.

An illustration of Roland holding his pistol and a rose at the base of the tower from The Dark Tower book series

Roland with the Dark Tower behind him on Stephen King book cover

Roland faces the tower in the distance with red fog and birds in an illustration fromThe Dark Tower comic book

A composite image of Mike Flanagan next to The Dark Tower cover for The Gunslinger

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The Dark Tower (2017) Movie Poster