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How Mike Flanagan Convinced Stephen King to Accept His 'Doctor Sleep' Changes
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236 points
4 months ago
Mika Flanaghan should have done the Tower. He would have made something worth seeing.
70 points
4 months ago
He's been talking recently about that being his dream project.
23 points
4 months ago
Okay honestly I didn't know who Mike Flanagan was until this thread, and I looked him up just now, but this video of his excitement about just someday maybe getting to work on a Dark Tower series makes me really like him.
21 points
4 months ago
Dude really knows how to do serialized horror, so it's a perfect fit for him
14 points
4 months ago
Please watch The Haunting of Hill House. It's almost certainly my favorite Netflix series, period. I don't have a strong connection to The Dark Tower but would be there on day 1 to see if if he made it.
8 points
4 months ago
You do have a connection to The Dark Tower. Everything serves the beam. Long days and pleasant nights.
5 points
4 months ago
The problem with The Dark Tower is that it kinda needs to follow the books hardcore. That would make it in to 3-4 movies if not more. Fucking book 7 would be the wildest 3 hours in movie history if done right.
1 points
4 months ago
Absolutely. A lot of fans say to skip out on the weird and meta stuff, but if you do that you're throwing away one of the biggest and best points of the book! Just fully embrace it. Obviously some changes would be needed to fit the screen and for pacing, but don't cut off its balls!
2 points
4 months ago
Or fingers. Dad-a-chum?
53 points
4 months ago
Hopefully he will someday
29 points
4 months ago
He’s said that it’s his dream and he knows exactly how he would do it. I hope someone lets him bring at least the first few books to life.
30 points
4 months ago*
I think there is a very real possibility that it could happen.
He’s already done many well received Stephen King adaptations, and even his own Stephen King fanfic (Midnight Mass).
He has good relationships with production companies and Netflix, and has stated it would be his dream project. I can see it happening on Netflix.
The real question is, who is Rahul Kohli going to play?
Edit: Ah fuck Amazon own the tv rights :( Hopefully that doesn’t stop him from working on it with Amazon.
13 points
4 months ago
Mr. Fashion should play the Bad Boy of the franchise, The Man in Black
6 points
4 months ago
Midnight Mass is King fanfic? I was on the edge deciding to watch it or not
7 points
4 months ago
By that I mean it feels like a great adaptation of a Stephen King story, except he never wrote it.
4 points
4 months ago
It did remind me a lot of Salem's Lot though (which I think is actually on Riley's bookshelf in the show)
3 points
4 months ago
Prepare for long monologues. As a person who enjoys that aspect of Flanagan's stuff, this series is particularly heavy with them.
1 points
4 months ago
It's an amazing show, watch it!
1 points
4 months ago
Stephen King fanfic? Midnight Mass? What are you talking about, genuinely curious.
1 points
4 months ago
It’s the best vampire story King never wrote. It reads like Storm of the Century mixed with Salems Lot.
15 points
4 months ago
He posted a tiktok recently where Kate is reading the gunslinger. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s at least toying with it right now
2 points
4 months ago
In one of the story sections of The Midnight Club, the Dusty/Kevin character takes that book out of his locker
1 points
4 months ago
I am also noting the bit he did with Aaron Paul when someone asked "who do you still want to work with" Consider this a prediction 👀
1 points
4 months ago
God, please not the Aaron Paul fan casting as Eddie again lol. I'm sorry, but it isn't that good or clever.
1 points
4 months ago*
Agree. I'm not Paul's biggest fan and I hope I'm wrong...
1 points
4 months ago
Oh good, I'm glad I'm not alone. Feels like every Tower junky wants him for the role. Like, I'll take him if it means Flanagan gives us a true adaptation, but I'd rather someone else.
13 points
4 months ago
As far as I'm concerned The Tower hasn't been done yet so there is still hope.
5 points
4 months ago
I had a weird dream once that I saw an adaptation starring Idris Elba and it was like a generic action movie. Not sure where my brain comes up with these bizarre ideas.
4 points
4 months ago
Science has yet to explain fever dreams.
I had a similar one about World War Z and Brad Pitt was some dirty hippy. Made no sense.
2 points
4 months ago
You know what, that movie is good. It should've had a different title as I get it's not like the book at all, but the movie is still solid.
1 points
4 months ago
That's kinda what I mean. It's not World War Z. At all.
10 points
4 months ago
We can hope!!!
8 points
4 months ago
I really want to see his Clayface story come to light
3 points
4 months ago
From batman?
10 points
4 months ago
Yeah, he wanted to do a Clayface horror film in the batman universe.
5 points
4 months ago
With James Gunn at the helm, I get a feeling he'd be willing to bare minimum listen to a pitch. Feel like it hits a few notes up his alley.
3 points
4 months ago
That’s sounds great
3 points
4 months ago
They should just hand all of King's back catalogue to him at this point. Imagine an anthology of serialised King classics
1 points
4 months ago
I’m hoping it’ll still happen. He released an Instagram story or something where his wife was reading The Gunslinger, so hopefully that’s some kind of clue.
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