Mike Flanagan said his adaptation will stay faithful to the books, and will start with the first novel
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series has long been considered tough to adapt: With a complex multiverse of worlds spread across several lengthy novels, where do you even begin? According to Mike Flanagan, the man behind TV series like The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and Prime Video’s recent adaptation of Carrie, the answer is surprisingly simple: you begin at the start.
In an interview with The Process Unlocked, Flanagan revealed new details on his previously announced adaptation of The Dark Tower series. When asked about the most challenging work he'd adapted, Flanagan surprised the interviewer by saying Warhammer was the trickiest.
Flanagan explained that The Dark Tower wasn't the most difficult work he’s tackled because King’s novels already do a great job of bringing newcomers into the story. “You do the books. Stephen King is genius in how he structures The Dark Tower,” Flanagan said. “It’s one of the most perfect opening lines of any book. ‘The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.’ It’s two characters, there’s a clear objective — one is running away, one is pursuing — and it’s a desert, there’s nothing else to look at. It’s so simple and so clean. On top of that foundation, he adds a universe one brick at a time.”
“The problem with the other approaches is people who try to jump in the middle, or people who try to jump in at a different point,” Flanagan further explained.
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