Details surrounding Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower adaptation have been scarce in the three years since it was first announced. But we finally have an update on the project — and it’s an exciting one. Flanagan has enlisted the ideal collaborator in developing this infamously hard-to-adapt series: Stephen King himself.

T he vast universe that makes up The Dark Tower book series has long vexed Hollywood talents hoping to adapt Stephen King’s lofty fantasy epic, but horror mastermind Mike Flanag