About a year ago, JJ Abrams started talking about adapting Stephen King’s massive Dark Tower series for the big screen. Even at the time people were wondering how he and Lost co-producer Damon Lindelof were going to do it, because while many have tried, it’s an enormous and complex series of works, which presents the challenge of mixing fantasy, horror, parallel universes, skipping timelines and various other elements that would be difficult to film.
Abrams has been talking to MTV and admitted, “After working six years on Lost, the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I’m such a massive Stephen King fan that I’m terrified of screwing it up. I’d do anything to see those movies written by someone else.”
However, while he’s not doing it, he reckons at some point sombody else will, “My guess is The Dark Tower will get made because its so incredible, but not by me.”
We reckon he may be playing up the chances of an adaptation, as it’d probably be too expensive for TV, and anyone wanting to make a film series of it is up against incredible challenges. If ever any of King’s novels were unfilmable, it’d be these ones.