Mike Flanagan Interview - Dark Tower Updates

Lou_Sytsma

Lot's of great, up-to-date Dark Tower tidbits in this interview with Mike Flanagan. 

willowlove

Another interview where Flanagan talks Dark Tower and other projects.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dolores-claiborne-with-mike-flanagan/id1512844649?i=1000623899492 

As quoted at Dark Horizons:

In fact, he confirms not only is the project in a good place right now, but it will be his number one priority when the strike ends:

“I feel really good about where we are. Oddly, where we are at the moment is completely frozen, because of the strike, but we had a wonderful spring with it and we’re making enormous progress on it. And I have every reason to believe that on the other side of the strike, it’s gonna be priority #1.

We have great partners on it that I can’t talk about, and we’ve got some really exciting actors circling on it that I can’t talk about, and we have some potentially groundbreaking approaches to the filmmaking of it that I just can’t really talk about … but what I can say is that my fears that any momentum we had developed was gonna be obliterated [by the strike], well, I don’t really worry about that.”

https://www.darkhorizons.com/dark-tower-to-be-flanagans-priority/

BevVincent

Amazon is having weekly conversations with Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy’s production company Intrepid Pictures enjoyed a strong working relationship with the Netflix streaming service for several years, but the deal between the companies came to an end as 2022 came to a close, and Intrepid signed an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Soon after, Flanagan and Macy secured the rights to make Flanagan’s dream project a reality: they started developing a series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. We haven’t heard much about the project since then, although Flanagan said during last year’s writers strike that The Dark Tower would be his top priority once the strike ended… and after he finished working on the feature adaptation of King’s short story The Life of Chuck. Flanagan also recently signed on to make the next Exorcist movie for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, seemingly pushing The Dark Tower further down the line. But during an interview with The Wrap, Amazon MGM Studios television head Vernon Sanders confirmed that Amazon is having weekly conversations with Flanagan about The Dark Tower and other Intrepid productions.

Sanders said, “Mike is incredibly passionate about this and we’re incredibly passionate about Intrepid. There are a few things in the hopper with Intrepid with us and we’re trying to figure out right now how to prioritize. So I don’t have anything to share specifically on Dark Tower other than we are in weekly conversations with him about this and a few other pieces that we’re leaning into.“