It’s a big week for things first announced in 2010, as the prospective combo film & TV adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved fantasy-horror series The Dark Tower is back on. Deadline reports Sony & MRC will produce The Dark Tower alongside Imagine Entertainment’s Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins, as well as King himself. The project was first set up at Universal and then Warner Bros. with Howard set to direct the first film in an ongoing franchise that would see three films and a television companion. The site reports Akiva Goldsman & Jeff Pinkner have co-written the latest draft, logically based heavily on the first Dark Tower novel, The Gunslinger, and a television series is still in development. Howard does not appear to… Read entire story.

Source: Shock Till You Drop