With the recent announcement of the plans to roll out the Dark Tower movie and TV series incarnations, a bit more behind the scenes news has slipped out. One of the best pieces of news to date in my mind is that Mark Verheiden has signed on to co-write the TV series with Akiva Goldsman. With the TV series set to run between the theatrical features, there’s a lot of tight writing and complicated material to get taken care of in a relatively short amount of space considering the scope and scale of the series. Ron Howard will be directing the theatrical features and has indicated he’ll perform the directing duties on the first TV episode. Verheiden is currently working as a co-executive producer on Falling Skies, but he garnered a lot of attention for his role as a writer/co-executive producer on Battlestar Galactica. He came to my attention yeras ago when he first worked on the Aliens comics that brought a whole host of potential to the world there.
