Mark Verheiden will join Akiva Goldsman as co-writer of the multi-tiered film and television adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
Envisioned as three films and a television series, the project will bring to the screen King’s fantasy epic that spreads across seven published novels. Ron Howard plans to direct the first part of the series and would at least oversee the rest of the massive adaptation.
Verheiden, who has written for “Smallville,” “Heroes,” “Battlestar Galactica” and many more television series, is the co-executive producer of the upcoming “Falling Skies.” He will also executive produce The Dark Tower alongside Goldsman.
Casting is still underway for the adaptation with Javier Bardem still said to be “locked in psychologically” for the part of Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger.
I really have my fingers crossed about this project… it could be the most EPIC thing ever attempted…! But I worry that there is absolutely no way to make the scenes on the screen (big or small) work as well as the scenes we’ve been seeing in our heads for the last 30+ years!