How Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ Could Tie Into ‘The Dark Tower’
He has Prime Video’s Carrie series arriving next month, The Exorcist: Martyrs hitting theaters next year, and The Mist—another Stephen King adaptation—at the top of his to-do list. But in the meantime, he’s got Roland, the Man in Black, and company on his mind, even while neck-deep in Carrie. In a new Entertainment Weekly profile on Flanagan and his Carrie cast, he mentioned that his Dark Tower is still “very much on the table” at Amazon.
- ▪He has Prime Video’s Carrie series arriving next month, The Exorcist: Martyrs hitting theaters next year, and The Mist—another Stephen King adaptation—at the top of his to-do list.
- ▪But in the meantime, he’s got Roland, the Man in Black, and company on his mind, even while neck-deep in Carrie.
- ▪In a new Entertainment Weekly profile on Flanagan and his Carrie cast, he mentioned that his Dark Tower is still “very much on the table” at Amazon.
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Mike Flanagan is undeniably busy these days. He has Prime Video’s Carrie series arriving next month, The Exorcist: Martyrs hitting theaters next year, and The Mist—another Stephen King adaptation—at the top of his to-do list. But there’s one King dream project that Flanagan has been dropping hints about for years: The Dark Tower, a sprawling, multi-book saga that will be a major undertaking once he digs into…
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