When filmmaker Mike Flanagan announced in 2022 that he'd obtained the rights to develop a TV adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Constant Readers everywhere breathed a sigh of relief. Several attempts have been made to adapt the sprawling and surreal dark fantasy series for the big and small screen, and the dismally received 2017 feature film barely scratched the surface of King's imaginative world. But if anyone could pull it off, it would be Mike Flanagan.