Thread by @glenmazzara

2 years ago, I was told #TheDarkTower was not moving forward to series. I had big plans not only for that show but for a whole TDT universe. Ideas from my notes:

A big part of Jake’s story is that he bought a children’s book in NYC called “Charlie the Choo Choo.” I propose creating an animated short to for a Comic-Con trailer.

Tell me this wouldn’t make a kick ass amusement park ride. You strap into Blaine the Mono, the voice over the speaker has gone insane, the mono itself turns invisible, and you go hurling through simulations of the world of The Dark Tower.

Father Callahan is a character from ‘Salem’s Lot. In Wolves of The Calla, Callahan gives a lengthy account of what happened to him between ‘Salem’s Lot and The Dark Tower. It’s a great story that could be adapted as a spin-off miniseries.

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ALERT: This stand-alone fable is an important part of Roland’s world. It’s a story his mother told him when he was a little boy and he tells it as a story within a story in the novel TWTTK.

I had originally thought to adapt this material in the main narrative of the series, but we are no longer employing a story within a story device. I would really hate to lose this material. I love it. And I think a lot of fans would enjoy seeing the story of Tim Stoutheart.

I propose adapting it as a two-hour feature in the same way that UK genre shows have designated Christmas Specials. This material is not Christmas themed, I’m just proposing that UK model.

The world of The Dark Tower offers many opportunities for us to dramatize stories that may only exist in the written material as a line or two. For example, in The Wind Through the Keyhole Roland mentions that Tim Stoutheart went on to become a gunslinger

when he joined a posse that came through his town. Roland gives a very brief account then says “It’s a tale for another day.” We could turn this into another feature called “The Left-Handed Gun.”

We could also dramatize the events that led to Roland’s world becoming what it is. We could film the old ones tinkering with The Dark Tower, the fall of our world, the rise of Arthur Eld, and the establishment of the order of the gunslingers. The possibilities are limitless.