{"id":7745,"date":"2009-11-11T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:30:32","slug":"no-dark-tower-for-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/11\/no-dark-tower-for-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dark Tower For Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> and <strong>Damon Lindelof <\/strong>won&#8217;t be adapting <strong>Stephen King<\/strong>&#8216;s seven book <em>The Dark Tower<\/em> into a movie or series.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, it was announced that Abrams and Lindelof would be involved in the project, and the assumption was that development would get going after <em>Lost<\/em> finishes next year, but according to Abrams, they won&#8217;t be adapting the book series. &#8220;<em>The Dark Tower<\/em> thing is tricky,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;It&#8217;s such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Abrams is plenty busy with other projects such as <em>Star Trek XII, Mission: Impossible 4<\/em> and <em>Micronauts<\/em>, so the odds of him getting back to it are not good.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if the project will go forth, but director <strong>Frank Darabont <\/strong>(<em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>) has shown interest in making the movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof won&#8217;t be adapting Stephen King&#8216;s seven book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,2975],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-the-dark-tower"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}