Ron Howard’s ambitious plan to create three Dark Tower movies with two television series bridging the plots between each film was a dream come true for fans. Unfortunately it’s turning out to be a slightly too ambitious dream for studios. Warner Brothers, speculated as the most likely studio to take on a project of this scope, have passed on it. While the project isn’t officially dead, making a successful pitch to any other studio is going to be a stretch. It's not entirely unexpected, anyone familiar with the Dark Tower series knows it's a uniquely complex, bizarre and dense series to adapt. It's not the sort of text you can skim of the top, drop some peripheral stuff and keep the core identity of the text, thinks would unravel fast and you'd end up with a huge mess of a half assed film. The film/TV series hybrid seemd like the only way to go, and that proposal also seems to be a no go. But speaking to the fans, do we really want to see an actor trying to fill the boots of Roland Deschain? Could we bare it? Would we every be satisfied with the casting decisions? Probably not.

Still, I had a dream, like a literal dream, that Marvel studios might pick up the project with all their spare cash after their mega success at the box office as a side project alongside their super hero films. Not a foolish hope as Marvel publishes a number of comic adaptations and expansions of the Dark Tower universe. But it was only a dream, and dreams in the shadow of the Dark Tower are evil dreams indeed...