After years of start-stop development Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower extensive novel series looks likely to get the go-ahead in the next few weeks following a new screenplay from Fringe‘s Akiva Goldsman and the interest of Gladiator‘s Russell Crowe in starring as Deschain, the supernatural gunslinger.

The ambitious version of King’s nine-book series is due to encompass a trilogy of movies and two limited-run TV series, possibly on HBO, home of Game of Thrones. The two TV series would run between the three movies.

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