How Does Stephen King Feel
About Ron Howard Putting
THE DARK TOWER On NBC??

I am – Hercules!! If you’ve not heard, Ron Howard’s plan is to put Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series of novels into a series a movies, as well as an NBC TV series that would run between the movies. Entertainment Weekly asked King, who writes a monthly column for the magazine, if he thought NBC was the right fit for the material.

EW: There’s a lot of blood in the series — how much is the TV series going to be censored? It likely would have been easier to join forces with a network without restrictions, à la HBO, no? KING: I don’t see that as a problem at all! We’ll have just enough latitude to make a great series. I’ve worked in network TV before, and every time I was squeezed a little, it just made me look for creative solutions. Besides, I always like to play in the biggest auditorium available!

While the plan is an odd one, there are precedants. "The X-Files" jumped from series to movie to series to movie. "Star Trek" did too, sort of. Remember how Spock appeared in both "The Undiscovered Country" and "The Next Generation" in late 1991? EW also gets King to reveal whom he always saw playing Susannah on screen. Find all of EW’s exclusive here. Follow Herc on Twitter!! Follow Evil Herc on Twitter!!
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