Abrams and Lindelof plan DARK TOWER film series

The MTV blog reports that Lost co-creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof have set their sites on an epic film series based on Stephen King's Dark Tower books. (Click the image at left to order a box set of the first four books from Amazon.)

“Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King,” Abrams told IGN while promoting the upcoming Star Trek film. “We got the rights for [Dark Tower] as a film. Damon is obviously still on Lost and we’ve been working on Star Trek together. As soon as Lost is done, hopefully we’ll begin tackling that.”

Lindelof has said he wants to complete Lost before even beginning to tackle the Dark Tower series, but he previously told AMC that he pictures Dark Tower as a series of seven films.

"There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun,” said Lindelof. “If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.”

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