No more DARK TOWER movie but how about a new DARK TOWER book!!!
Yes it's true! King has idea for an 8th Dark Tower novel, set between the Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla!
This week saw the death-knell of J.J. Abrams' ambitious plan to adapt Stephen King's incredible sci-fi/horror/western/fantasy series The Dark Tower into seven feature films, which left a lot of die-hard King fans (including me), a little broken-hearted. So sadly no movie, not yet. But, quite unbelievably, in the same week this news hit, Stephen King told a rapid-fire Q & A in a Walmart in Dundalk, Maryland two days ago that a new Dark Tower book might just be on it's way, something I honestly thought I would never hear! Breathe! Read that sentence again, and relax. It's all true! I found the news at AICN and it's taken me a while to recover...
Stephen has given me permission to pass along that he has an idea for a new Dark Tower book, the working title of which will be THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. He has not yet started this book and anticipates that it will be a minimum of eight months before he is able to begin writing it.Wow, that's pretty solid info then. Sounds to me like he wants to do it, he wants to write it, and he will do it next year. GQ followed up with this article after a different interview with the author...
King stated he will write another Dark Tower novel. It will center around supporting characters and revolve around some important events between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla.Never thought I would see the day, really. The Dark Tower is in many ways King's life work and to think he is about to re-visit it at this stage of his writing career, when the story is completely sewn up... well it's incredible. We're not done yet though, there's more info from the Q & A. Firstly, he tells the crowd he has wrote a script for his most popular novel of recent years, his George A. Romero inspired Cell...
"I got so many complaints about the end of the book that I changed everything.Previously, Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) tried desperately to get Cell off the ground only for it to be rejected at the final stages. John Harrison (Dune 2000 series) was hired in the summer to adapt Cell for a t.v. miniseries, so either King has co-wrote, taken over from him or this is a completely different project. It would be hard to believe it will be a different filmic project or we would have probably heard by now via the trades. And more from the Q & A vid below in brief, along with the vid itself...