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Mark Verheiden To Co-Write, EP NBC’s ‘Dark Tower’ Series With Akiva Goldsman

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 2:38pm PDTTags: Akiva Goldsman, NBC, Stephen King, Stephen King The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TV, film and comic book writer Mark Verheiden has been tapped to co-write with Akiva Goldsman the NBC TV series The Dark Tower. The project is part of a massive joint deal Universal Pictures and NBC Universal TV Entertainment signed back in September to turn Stephen King’s opus of best-selling novels — which have sold more than 30 million copies — into into a feature film trilogy and a TV series, both of them creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.

Verheiden will executive produce the The Dark Tower series along with Goldsman and his Weed Road Pictures for Universal Media Studios. As previously announced, Ron Howard will direct the series, which is envisioned as a bridge between the first and second movie in the trilogy. This marks Verheiden’s return to NBC and UMS following his turn as a supervising producer on Heroes. He also was a writer/co-exec producer on the NBCU series Battlestar Galactica, which ran on Syfy. He most recently served as a co-executive producer of TNT’s upcoming sci-fi series Falling Skies, from DreamWorks TV. Verheiden, repped by CAA, Untitled and attorney Peter Nelson, is also in business with DreamWorks on the feature side, developing Quatermain for the studio, as well as Ark for Sony Pictures for producers Neal Moritz and Mike Richardson. He has written nearly 125 comic books including The American, Aliens, Predator, The Phantom, Superman and Superman/Batman.

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Ron Howard On ‘The Dark Tower’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 14, 2010 @ 10:08am PSTTags: Akiva Goldsman, Brian Grazer, Movie Deals, Movies, Ron Howard, Stephen King, Stephen King The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower, TV
Mike Fleming

While I had Ron Howard on the phone yesterday to discuss the Imagine/Reliance Writers Lab that Karen Kehela Sherwood will supervise, I wasn’t going to let him get away without providing some update on The Dark Tower, the adaptation … Read More »

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Networks Go For Dramas Based On Source Material; 3 More Adaptations Enter The Fray

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 6:25pm PDTTags: Identity, Locke & Key, Michael Seitzman, Sony TV, Stephen King The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower, Treadstone, Treadstone Anthony Zuiker, Zoe Lister-Jones
Nellie Andreeva

With drama sale season in full force, book and format adaptations have emerged as a red-hot commodity. ABC is working on a U.S. version of hit British series Spooks with writer Michael Seitzman, NBC is developing an adaptation … Read More »

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Universal Lands Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ And Plans Unprecedented Feature/Network TV Adaptation

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 8, 2010 @ 2:02pm PDTTags: Akiva Goldsman, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Stephen King, Stephen King The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 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 … Read More »

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