You’re a part of The Dark Tower mythos as well. Its roots have spread so wide that they even encompass your world - yes, you, reading this. But more than that, virtually every story he writes continues the narrative of the Gunslinger. In addition, he's served as creative director of the prequel comics published by Marvel telling the untold tales of the Gunslinger and his world. He published another novel eight years later called The Wind Through the Keyhole, which function as Book 4.5. Of course, a lot of us - including King himself - never actually left it.Įven after the release in 2004 of Book Seven, titled simply The Dark Tower, King continued writing in that world. Now fans can finally journey back to the Tower. More than two years later, The Dark Tower is at last arriving in theaters, with Howard still producing, a connective TV series still in play, and Idris Elba starring as the Gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey as the villainous Man in Black. RELATED: Dark Tower Featurette Explores Legacy of the Gunslinger By April 2015, it had landed at Sony Pictures, and soon after found a director in Nikolaj Arcel ( A Royal Affair). In April 2010, Oscar winner Ron Howard emerged to spearhead an ambitious adaptation of King's epic, one that called for a film trilogy, with interlocking television miniseries.Īlthough The Dark Tower seemed to speeding along, with Javier Bardem closing in on the starring role as Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger was soon confronted by an opponent more fearsome than the Man in Black: "budgetary complications" that led Universal Pictures to first delay development and then, in 2013, withdraw from The Dark Tower entirely, forcing Howard's Imagine Entertainment to search for a new home for the project. However, by 2009 the project had stalled. Abrams ( Mission: Impossible, Lost) attached to produce and direct. Development of an adaptation began more than a decade ago, initially with J.J. It wasn’t until the early 2000s, shortly after King was struck by a car while walking down the road, that he decided to put his head down and finish The Dark Tower, knocking out the fifth and sixth book in one year, and the seventh the next.īut if the journey of The Dark Tower took a long time in book form, the road to theaters proved even more arduous. He continued at a glacial pace, writing one novel every five years, which might be normal for other novelists, but for King, who publishes at least one book a year, it was certainly out of the ordinary. The next installments didn't come much faster.
All told, it took King 12 years to finish the first novel in the saga. The second section, "The Way Station," was published two years after the first.
"The Gunslinger," the first section of the eponymous novel, was completed about eight years after King began it. However, he didn't so much burn through the first novel, The Gunslinger, as crawl.
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