Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is getting a movie trilogy AND TV series by Ron Howard’s Imagine Studios:

Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King’s mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.

Ron Howard has committed to direct the initial feature film, as well as the first season of the TV series that will follow in close proximity. Akiva Goldsman will write the film, and the first season of the TV series. Howard’s Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer will produce, with Goldsman and the author.

Having the series go across TV and movies will be interesting and I’m curious how they will tie the two together (or if they will tie them together). It should be interestin.