By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 16, 2020 9:00 am EST
Unlike the movie, which attempted to tell a new story that continued out of the mythology of the books (which were mostly glossed over in the adaptation), this new series would have been much more faithful to the books by telling the origin story of Roland Deschain the Gunslinger and his first conflict with a villain known as The Man in Black. Sam Strike played the protagonist and Jasper Pääkkönen was his foil.
The Dark Tower has been known to be a challenging book series to adapt for either film and television. Before the terrible film adaptation arrived in 2017, there had been several varying attempts to adapt the books. The most ambitious attempt was a combination of interconnected movies and TV shows that Ron Howard and his Imagine Entertainment banner wanted to make. That plan unfortunately never came together.
But if you’re a fan of The Dark Tower still hoping for a series adaptation to do the books justice, not all hope is lost. MRC (or Media Rights Capital) will be shopping the two original scripts they used for the pilot around to other buyers. So there’s a chance this could end up being made elsewhere instead. Hopefully whoever tries to adapt The Dark Tower next heeds the advice our own Chris Evangelista provided back in 2018.
