Flanagan Gives Update On The Dark Tower
Posted: September 16, 2026, 15:43
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To do it the way I wanna do it requires an enormous commitment from a studio.
Flanagan’s main struggles now are the rights that he needs to secure.
The way the Dark Tower universe is connected, you’ve got characters in there that are all over the place when it comes to studio ownership. So the development process on it has been epic. It, of course, has taken much longer than I’d like it to, but I work on it all the time. It’s never stopped moving. It just moves at its own oil-tanker pace.
There has also been questions about if Carrie could turn in to a backdoor into The Dark Tower?
I may have asked this very question several times along the way. It’s certainly not impossible. There are characters in the Tower canon who would serve a very specific purpose in that story, who audiences wouldn’t necessarily recognize because they only exist in certain books.
Carrie White could achieve the same narrative purpose pretty cleanly. You could say the same, though, of Abra Stone (Doctor Sleep), you could say the same about Danny Torrance (The Shining). How the various Stephen King worlds can connect is always on my mind.
