'Dark Tower' Heading To Warner Bros. In New Deal?

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There might be some life left in "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/463318/moviemain.jhtml"]The Dark Tower[/url]" after all. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's ambitious three-films-and-two-TV-series adaptation plan might have had Universal running for the hills, but it got [url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/10/25/dark-tower-hbo-brian-grazer/"]HBO interested[/url] in the TV portion and now reportedly has another studio looking to produce the films as well.

[url="http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/stephen-kings-the-dark-tower-wjavier-bardem/"]Deadline[/url] is reporting that Warner Bros is "very close" to making a deal to allow Howard to at least direct the first "Dark Tower" film. Since both the WB and HBO are owned by Time Warner, it feels like a match made in heaven. HBO is a perfect home for King's brand of fantasy, and Warner Bros is already hard at work bringing an adaptation of "The Stand" to the big screen, so the pairing makes sense.



In addition to Warner Bros actually looking to pick up the project, Deadline reports that [url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/05/25/dark-tower-javier-bardem-ron-howard-casting-call/"]Javier Bardem is still on board[/url] to play the Gunslinger in the adaptation, assuming his schedule allows his participation. This is some pretty exciting news considering it's been a long time since Bardem first attached himself to the "Dark Tower" films/TV shows.

It will be interesting to see how Warner Bros and HBO work together to bring "The Dark Tower" to the big and small screens. Grazer told MTV News that part of the reason why new studios are so interested in picking up "The Dark Tower" is because he and Howard have trimmed much of the fat from the budget.

"We're going to do that movie. We've lost $45 million out of the budget," he said. "When people say no to you enough, then you have to lose money, which we've done without harming the scope of the film."

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