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The Walking Dead and Damien executive producer Glen Mazzara is on the quest for Stephen King’s Dark Tower.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Mazzara will be showrunning the small screen incarnation of the series, which is expected to launch next year.

“I’ve been a Stephen King fan for decades, and the opportunity to adapt The Dark Tower as a TV series is a great honor,” Mazzara toldTHR. “The events of The Gunslinger, Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole and other tales need a long format to capture the complexity of Roland’s coming of age — how he became the Gunslinger, how Walter became the Man in Black, and how their rivalry cost Roland everything and everyone he ever loved. I could not be more excited to tell this story. It feels like being given the key to a treasure chest. And oh yeah, we’ll have billy-bumblers!”

As suggested by the volumes Mazzara mentions, the TV series will be focused around a younger Roland, the Gunslinger – the character played by Idris Elba in the movie that opens in the UK mid-August.