“The Dark Tower” Headed to HBO

Just a few days ago we were  updated by  Brian Grazer about the status of the much anticipated film adaptation of The Dark Tower.  While no studio has oficially green-lit their silver screen project, Grazer claimed that they’ve managed to cut $50 million from their proposed budget in an attempt to make the project more palatable.  Even though the prospects of a big screen release seems doubtful, Grazer and his partner Ron Howard have successfully lobbied HBO to support their television show based off the same Stephen King novels, which will hopefully  run simultaneously alongside the films.

I’m not a huge Stephen King fan, and I think I’ve lost all faith in Ron Howard after the travesty that was The Dilemma, but even I’m looking forward to this new series.  Let’s be honest, when’s the last time HBO has messed up a show?

Here’s a synopsis of the series for anyone that unfamiliar with The Dark Tower

In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of “Arthur Eld”, his world’s analogue of King Arthur. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. While the magical aspects are largely gone from Mid-World, some vestiges of them remain, along with the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society.

Roland’s quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland’s world is said to have “moved on”, and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams as mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Even the Sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland’s motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries. [Wikipedia]

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