Mike Flanagan is hitting the bottom operating at Amazon.
Simply days after saying that he was fleeing his longtime perch at Netflix for Amazon Studios, the person behind the Haunting franchise and Midnight Mass has revealed that one of many first initiatives he and producing associate Trevor Macy are eyeing is a sequence adaptation of Stephen King’s The Darkish Tower.
“We view it as a as a sequence that’s going a minimum of 5 seasons” adopted by two standalone movies, Flanagan tells our sister website Deadline. “I’ve an unlimited quantity of it labored out in my mind… I’ve a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a really detailed define for the primary season and a broader define for the following seasons. I feel ultimately, if we’re capable of get it going, there are another writers I wish to fold into that course of whom I’ve labored with earlier than; I feel they’d be actually fabulous for a really small, intimate writers room the place we will proceed to interrupt it.
“The pilot script is one among my favourite issues I’ve ever gotten to work on,” the auteur provides. “It’s been surreal engaged on that. So we’ve been floored and grateful that Stephen King trusts us with such an endeavor, one thing so treasured to him.”
Flanagan is cautious to notice that this potential new iteration of Darkish Tower might or might not find yourself at Prime Video. “We even have these rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t imply that they will’t or gained’t get behind it sooner or later — you don’t know,” he explains, including, that it’s “one thing we’ve been creating ourselves and are actually obsessed with lastly getting it up on its toes sooner or later.”
Darkish Tower was most just lately tailored right into a 2017 function movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey
