Ranks up there as one of my favorite fantasy series...

 

"Lost" executive producer Damon Lindelof picked up the rights to Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series last year. Now, AMC TV has chatted with him about how it's coming along.

 

The bad news is that we have to wait until "Lost" is finished before he can work on it, however the plan is to adapt the seven books into a seven film series.

 

"The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we've got seven books we're looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable" says Lindelof.

 

He adds that "There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one."

Awesome can't wait.

And there isn't that Harry Potter element where everyone who can read has read the books first. I'm sure a half the people will go to the first movie not even knowing it's a book unless they present it as Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

Though the question is how do people react to the end of the series, got ruined for me cause I ended up getting told half way through the last book.

 

It's an intersting study in the nature of obsession and the idea of inevitabilty. And the mixing of the cowboy theme with the denegration of the world.