J.J. Abrams tapped for Stephen King's 'Dark Tower'

Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 3:11 PM Central

by John Couture

J.J. Abrams and his Lost cronies have gotten the reins to Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series of books from the man horror master himself. The producers of Lost have mentioned on occasion that they're big Stephen King fans and his book Carrie featured prominently in a few episodes last season.

"I know J.J. Abrams' work and Damon Lindelof, who is his collaborator on Lost. Damon is just a total comic-book freak, and he loves the Dark Tower books. I trust those guys, and they have a lot on the ball," said King. "When they said they wanted to talk about doing this, I said, 'You know what? Why don’t you buy the option on this and see what you can come up with.' They asked, 'How much do you want for an option?' I said, '$19.' And that’s what they paid me, and that’s where it is."

With J.J.'s crazy schedule coming up and the fact that Lost still has three more wonderful seasons on the tube, it'll probably be a good bet that this project won't see the light of day before 2010 or later.