Warner Bros. Interested in "The Dark Tower"

A while ago, Universal passed on the opportunity to bring Stephen King's The Dark Tower to the big screen as a trilogy. After being turned down, Ron Howard, who was set to direct, and producer Brian Grazer were determined to get the film made and now, it looks like Warner Bros. is interested in making it happen.

According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is close to closing a deal that will keep Howard on as director and Grazer as producer. Akiva Goldsman has written a script which not only did Warner Bros. buy, but they hired Goldsman to polish it up a bit. When Howard and Grazer went to Universal with the idea, Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) was set to star as the gunslinger Roland Deschain. As of now, it appears that he's still attached to the project.

"The Dark Tower is about the last living member of a knightly order of gunslingers, with Deschain becoming humanity’s last hope to save civilization as he hits the road to find the Dark Tower. Along the way, he encounters characters, good and bad, in a world that has an Old West feel."

Source: Deadline