Mike Flanagan, the director behind ‘doctor sleep‘ Y ‘the midnight club‘ (The Midnight Club) by Netflix, wants to adapt the books of ‘the dark tower‘ (The Dark Tower) by Stephen King at all costs. It is not something strange since it has specialized in the work of the Maine author throughout his career.
Bring the text to the screen, as is
In an interview with IGN, Flanagan talked about what he would have done with the source material of the King of Terror.
“It’s my dream project and I keep coming back to it because it has its own gravitational pull. I can’t stay too far away from it for long. Nothing would be a greater honor or make me happier in my career than being able to work on it. Any adaptation I made would resemble the books.
The first scene would be a black screen and the words, ‘The man in black fled across the desert and the gunman followed him’ would play silently, and you’d hear the wind, and we’d slowly fade away into a landscape like ‘ Lawrence of Arabia’ with a silhouette in the distance making its way through the hard surface. And we would build it from there, in order, to the end.”
It’s doesn’t mean Flanagan wouldn’t make any changesof course:
“It would just be a matter of taking the more fantastical elements that might be more difficult to connect with, especially where it gets quite meta at the midpoint, and bringing them down to earth, but otherwise the characters are who they are, the arc it is what it is.
I think the way NOT to do ‘The Dark Tower’ is to try to make it into something else, try to make it ‘Star Wars’ or Lord of the Rings. It is what it is. It is perfect. It’s just as exciting as all of those things and just as involving, and it’s a story about a small group of people and all the odds in the entire world are against them and they come together. As long as it’s that, it’ll be fine.”
There was already a failed adaptation in 2017, and Amazon was also working on an adaptation of the series, but it was scrapped in 2020. There was talk of Ron Howard handling it. Flanagan ended the interview by saying that was open to doing an adaptation, whether it was in the form of a feature film or a series:
“It would be my Everest to do that. Nothing would make me happier and God, I hope there’s a chance. I really do.”
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Mike Flanagan dreams of shooting ‘The Dark Tower’: the director of ‘The Midnight Club’ has explained how he would adapt Stephen King’s most extensive work