I know that audiences will fall in love with Kate’s two wonderful protagonists Sarah and Lizzie, just as I have." "They are authentic, funny, crammed with original characters, and they tell intense and challenging stories. You can expect any future series to stick closely to those books.Įxecutive producer Patrick Harbinson said (via The Stylist): "As soon as I read Kate London’s beautifully written novels I knew they were it.
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So I think purely based upon the fact that there are two other novels already written, I think it's definitely got scope to carry on." " kind of follows Lizzie and Sarah, these two characters, through their personal lives and their careers and potentially meeting again in different kinds of situations. " The Tower is based on Post Mortem, I think she's written three novels," PC Lizzie Adama actress Tahirah Sharif told Radio Times. Death Message and Gallowstree Lane both feature Lizzie and Sarah, as well as that slippery DI Shaw. Read more of his work here.There are also lots of potential storylines – The Tower is based on former Met police officer Kate London’s book Post Mortem, and she has written two more books in the Metropolitan series of novels. John Saavedra is an associate editor at Den of Geek. While there’s always hope, especially when it comes to a King adaptation, there might be other worlds than these for studios to explore. And like the film before it, the TV series will likely have a difficult time finding another studio to make it. The franchise is damaged goods, to say the least. After all, the movie was almost universally panned by critics and it only made $113 million globally, which was considered a massive flop for a blockbuster starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. It’s no so surprising that Amazon has decided to pass on the series. Nikolaj Arcel, who directed The Dark Towermovie, and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen wrote a script for the pilot and were also executive producers. Glen Mazzara, who previously helmed The Walking Dead season 3, was tapped as showrunner, while Stephen Hopkins ( Predator 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5) was set to direct the pilot. Akiva Goldsman, who produced and co-wrote the film adaptation, was an executive producer, along with Jeff Pinkner, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer. It would be like a complete reboot, so we’ll just have to see.” While the series was originally planned to tie into the 2017 film, Stephen King later explained in an interview with Vulture that that was no longer the case: “The TV series they’re developing now … we’ll see what happens with that.
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Deadline reports that the cast also included Michael Rooker ( The Walking Dead), Jerome Flynn ( Game of Thrones), and Joana Ribeiro ( The Man Who Killed Don Quixote). The show was set to star Sam Strike ( Nightflyers) as gunslinger protagonist Roland Deschain, Jasper Pääkkönen ( Vikings) was reportedly set to play the villainous Man in Black. Per the outlet, Dark Tower production company MRC is now shopping the pilot around to other studios.
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The Dark TowerTV series is not moving forward at Amazon, according to Deadline, which reports that the studio decided to pass on the pilot as it felt that it was not up to par with the other big-budget genre series (such Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings) coming to the streaming service.