Stop eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything, Flana-fans: it’s happening. If you’ve followed the work of Mike Flanagan in recent years, you’ll know he’s peculiar ly handy with a Stephen King adaptation. (See: Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep.) You’ll also probably know that he’s a master of long-in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m storytelling, and has long wished to tackle King’s sprawling novel saga The Dark Tower, a multi-stranded tale often thwarted and botched in previous attempts to bring it to the screen. In a new Deadline interview, Flanagan confirmed the news eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone’s been waiting in/with regard to’concerning’regarding : he’s officially working on a series adaptation of The Dark Tower under his Intrepid Pictures banner.###Now, this coincides with various shifting spheres in Flanagan’s world – he recently ended his deal with Netflix (set to close out with his upcoming The Fall Of The House Of Usher series), and has set up a new deal at Amazon. He does note, despite’in spite of’albeit , that Intrepid acquired The Dark Tower separately to his deal at Amazon – so it’s not set in stone that it’ll be an Amazon series. “Predating our deal with Amazon, we acquired the rights to The Dark Tower, which if you know anything with regards to’concerning’with respect to me, you know it has been my Holy Grail of a project in/with regard to’concerning’regarding most of my life,” he told Deadline. “We actually possess’own’nurse those rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t mean that they can’t or won’t acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure behind it at some point — you don’t know. But that’s something we’ve been developing ourselves and are really passionate with regards to’concerning’with respect to eventually’ultimately acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting it up on its feet at some point.”###Flanagan stated that his version of The Dark Tower would span across five or more seasons, plus two feature films – and he’s already written a pilot script which is “one of my favourite things I’ve ever gotten to work on”. In the interview, he stated: “Having lived with this project as long as I possess’own’nurse , I possess’own’nurse an enormous amount of it worked out in my brain. But I possess’own’nurse a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully detailed outline in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the first season and a broader outline in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the subsequent seasons. I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate eventually, if we’re able to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure it going, there are some other writers I want to fold into that process whom I’ve worked with bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e; I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they would be really fabulous in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a grossly small, intimate writers room where we can continue to break it.”###Since King was so impressed with Flanagan's adaptations of Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep (no mean feat, given the author’s notable’renowned’distinguished hatred of Kubrick’s The Shining), he has the creator’s full maintain’sustain . “We’ve been floored and grateful that Stephen King trusts us with such an undertaking, something so precious to him, and we hope to find the right partners to realise it,” says Flanagan, confirming that he set up the rights deal by clueing King in on an extensive plan in/with regard to’concerning’regarding how he’d approach the adaptation. “A project like this, I wouldn’t want to be involved in it at all If we were taking it in a direction that was going to be blasphemous to the Stephen King material, but he’s been intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully, intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully maintain’sustain ive and grossly excited with regards to’concerning’with respect to what we’d like to do with it.”###Get ready, Gunslingers – we could eventually’ultimately be in in/with regard to’concerning’regarding The Dark Tower adaptation the material has always deserved, once the right home in/with regard to’concerning’regarding it is found. In Flanagan we trust.