Amazon passes on The Dark Tower Stephen King TV adaptation

Deadline

The Dark Tower pilot from showrunner Glen Mazzara will be shopped elsewhere after Amazon opted to pass. "Largely because of the challenges translating the material, Amazon opted to go with a pilot vs. straight-to-series on a big-scale, big-budget production like The Dark Tower," according to Deadline's Nellie Andreeva. "In the end, I hear Amazon executives felt like the pilot was not on the level of other large-scope elevated genre series the streamer has in production/pre-production like Wheel Of Time and The Lord Of the Rings."