Movies: 1135
Comments: 67725
Members: 718
Online: 0 Guests: 213
July 18, 2011 - The Dark Tower / Universal passes on movie
Scooped on Monday, July 18, 2011
Crippling news about this project broke today when the Deadline website reported that Universal has passed on making the project. According to reporter Mike Fleming, the studio would only commit to making the first movie and then see what the audience response would be to it before greenlighting the first companion television series. Fleming said that the studio brass liked the project, the creators, the script and the casting of Javier Bardem as Roland, but they still wouldn't commit to anything more than the first film.
Deadline reports that the Dark Tower movie/TV project could find a new home at Warner Bros. where Akiva Goldsman has his production company and where its sister company New Line Cinema is presently making The Hobbit duology of films. Still, this news is a major blow to the project and one that it might not recover from, at least for the current Ron Howard-led incarnation of it.
There are currently no comments