![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If he were to be given the opportunity to make The Dark Tower as his next project, Mike Flanagan would evidently jump at the opportunity, but he is also a realist about the state of the industry, and understands that now might not be the right time for it. So The Dark Tower doesn’t have a studio, we don’t have a partner on it yet, so I’m developing it myself, which is really a blast. We have the Dark Tower, we carved it out from our Netflix deal knowing we were leaving, and we carved it out from our Amazon deal as well knowing that they’d already tried to do it and might be reluctant to do it. I want to do it right now so bad, but I don’t know that that’s right right now and that two years from now might not be the time when we got to do it properly.Ĭontinuing, Mike Flanagan essentially said that he is now in a place in his career where he feels that he will be ready to make The Dark Tower when the industry is ready for him to make The Dark Tower – though that's certainly not stopping him from constantly working on the adaptation: And so I have that in the back of my mind with all of the projects, including The Dark Tower now. Comparing the situation to his critically acclaimed 2021 Netflix series Midnight Mass, he explained,Īll I wanted in the world back in 2014 was for someone to make Midnight Mass right then, and we took it to every studio in town – and I’m so glad they didn’t. ![]() On top of the fact that the project doesn't currently have a studio attached, Flanagan recently shared with the Script Apart podcast that experience has taught him to be patient with the projects he is ultra passionate about. Excitement spread like a wildfire back in December when it was announced that Flanagan (the director of Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep) had acquired the rights to The Dark Tower, but those who are champing at the bit to witness his vision for the journey of Roland Deschain would probably benefit from calming down a touch. ![]()
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