They address the cancellation of their most recent Netflix series, The Midnight Club, which came shortly after their new Amazon deal was announced, and tout their final Netflix show, the upcoming limited series The Fall of the House of Usher, an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation whose lead was recast with Bruce Greenwood halfway through production when original star Frank Langella was fired after a misconduct investigation. In the interview, Flanagan and Macy also speak about their tenure at Netflix that spanned a regime change as well as a reset after the streamer’s stock plunge in the spring, the decision to look for a new TV home and landing at Amazon Studios. Attempts by multiple studios to bring The Dark Tower to the screen as a film/TV adaptation over the past decade and a half have resulted in the 2017 Sony/MRC/Imagine movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, followed by an Amazon/MRC pilot, written by Glen Mazzara, which didn’t go forward.įlanagan and Macy, who carved the rights to The Dark Tower out of their Netflix and Amazon Studios overall deals, are taking on the famous property having previously done two feature adaptations of King books, 2019’s Doctor Sleep and 2017 Gerald’s Game (based on the 2013 novel and the 1992 suspense tome, respectively), both directed and written/co-written by Flanagan.
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