Stephen King agrees that one of his worst-ever adaptations is in the right hands ahead of its impending reboot

We’ve been gifted with the good, the bad, and the ugly side of Stephen King adaptations ever since Carrie got the ball rolling way back in 1976, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that there aren’t many worse than The Dark Tower.

Held in the highest esteem by both the author himself and his army of readers, the dystopian fantasy saga had spent decades at the top of the live-action wish-list, which was roughly the same amount of time it spent in development hell. When the end result finally arrived in theaters back in the summer of 2017, it was an unmitigated disaster.

Hacked to pieces n the editing room to a mere 95 minutes, The Dark Tower tanked at the box office and secured a diabolical Rotten Tomatoes score of just 15 percent, which doesn’t make it sound like the sort of thing people would be excited to see getting rebooted in double-quick time.

However, horror maestro Mike Flanagan has long touted The Dark Tower as the project of his dreams, and he’ll finally be making it a reality now that a Prime Video series is in the works under his watch. Fans are thrilled, and so is the creator of the sprawling saga, with King one more throwing his weight behind the brains behind some of Netflix’s finest-ever spooky originals.

King adaptations are everywhere you look these days, but The Dark Tower as a series hailing from the mind of Mike Flanagan is a mouthwatering prospect, one that’s virtually guaranteed to deliver the goods based on the filmmaker’s stellar track record.