Amazon knocks ‘The dark Tower’: the adaptation damn the masterpiece of Stephen King will not come out ahead

we Could add them to this news as “chronicle of a death foretold” is that Amazon Prime Video has decided not to move forward with the adaptation to tv ‘The dark tower’, the monumental saga of Stephen King that Glenn Mazzara was developing.

The project, which was in the phase of pilot (with Sam Strike and Jasper Pääkkönen players) not been due to convince finally to the executives of Amazon, with the consequent cancellation. Yes, the producers are taking the scripts hoping that some other network or platform they want to be done with the series.

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This is a new blow to an adaptation that we can call damn, with a multitude of changes throughout its history. Recordemo that one of the original plans was that the series was an expansion of the films. The failure of ‘The dark tower’ in the cinemas, it made a few months after the television project was remodeling.

come to think of cold, which Amazon decides to order in your time directly to series (instead of to a pilot, as is often the case) it was something unusual for the size of the project and because it seemed a bottomless pit of money since the platform has several adaptations ambitious as ‘the lord of The rings’ and ‘The wheel of time’. It seems that on this occasion not to have ended up convinced to invest in the work of King.

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