In a recent interview to Empire, director Ron Howard talked about the live action adaptation of The Dark Tower, which after being passed from Universal to Warner Bros. as been for over a year stuck in development.
"The
Dark Tower is something that we’re still working on. We’ve all taken a vow of
silence about the progress, the headway, what we think our timetable is,
because I don’t think I realised how much media interest there was in the title
and how much excitement there was.
"It’s
a fascinating, powerful possibility and even Stephen King acknowledges it’s a
tricky adaptation, but to be honest, from a financing side, it’s not a straightforward,
four-quadrant, sunny superhero story – it’s dark, it’s horror. That edge is
what appeals to me, the complexities of those characters is what appeals to all
of us. And I think Stephen King really respects that, with [regular
screenwriting collaborator] Akiva Goldsman and myself, that that’s what we love
about it, and that’s what we want to try to get to the screen.
"So
my answer is: it got delayed, it’s never gone away. We’re working on it, and
Stephen is very patient with us, and Akiva’s just gone off and directed a movie
[an adaptation of Mark Helprin’s novel, Winter’s Tale, starring Colin Farrell,
Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly and Will Smith], I’m
continuing to work, but the Dark Tower dreams – fever dreams, rather – are
still there, but we’re not going to give it a timetable."
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