“I’ve been a Stephen King fan for decades and the opportunity to adapt The Dark Tower as a TV series is a great honor,” Mazzara tells the outlet.
With the feature film set to open in theaters tonight, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the spin-off TV series for The Dark Tower is still very much in development and has added former The Walking Dead and The Shield executive producer Glen Mazzara to showrun the series.
Idris Elba is slated to appear as Roland Deschain, aka The Gunslinger, along with Dennis Haysbert as his father, Steven Deschain, and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers.
Since the story tells the origin of Roland, a younger actor will be cast in the role with Elba and Taylor serving as the framing device for the series.