Are J.J. Abrams And Damon Lindelof Working On The Dark Tower?

J.J. Abrams and his partner in crime Damon Lindelof (Lost) have begun to work on a film adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus Dark Tower series. In an interview with IGN, Damon said he is focused on finishing Lost which ends next year. After that, looks like we’ll be seeing a J.J. and Damon production of the story of the Gunslinger Roland and his journey and quest to save the Dark Tower.

Their words:

“Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King,” Abrams told IGN. “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.”

“We’re just so focused on finishing Lost that it’s really hard to think about anything else,” he said. “The last thing we want to think about is how to adapt a seven-book series of, you know, basically the writer who we admire the most and look up to most and has inspired our work the most and do anything with that. I think that it’s such a daunting task. We have a pretty daunting task in front of us ourselves [with the end of Lost].”

In an earlier interview, Lindelof told AMC he sees the Dark Tower series playing out as a trilogy in the style of Lord of the Rings. Thanks Scifiwire.