Horror mastermind Mike Flanagan’s (Midnight Mass) new series Goosebumps at Midnight is out on Netflix. It follows a group of terminally ill teenagers who gather in a hospice library to scare each other through scary tales – until they are actually confronted with things that take place beyond good and evil. With “The Midnight Club” (the original title) Mike Flanagan proves once again that he is able to take a lot of time to unfold a good story – despite the jump scare world record in the first episode!
Time is also a keyword, which is particularly important when you consider the project Mike Flanagan still wants to tackle in the future: Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” book series. You can tell from all his films and series that Flanagan is a big fan of the Master Of Horror. But the artistic demands of the Dark Tower cycle are astronomical. Not only because Stephen King describes the series as his “most important work”, but also because because the more than 5,500-page epic is absolutely groundbreaking in terms of imagination and complexity.
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Taking on the creative challenge would certainly be extremely exciting for Mike Flanagan. But before a faithful adaptation of The Dark Tower would even get the green light, countless things would have to be clarified in advance, as Flanagan explained in an interview with JoBlo has declared:
He has already called the venture an “absolute development and rights nightmare,” but added that they (Flanagan along with his producer Trevor Macy) “will push to make it happen until someone stops them.”
It’s exceedingly complicated to explain what the eight-part The Dark Tower fantasy series is all about. As a reader, you find yourself in a mysterious world that is almost a distorted image of our reality. Here, lonely gunslinger Roland traverses a desert of damnation to get ever closer to the Dark Tower, the linchpin of the space-time continuum.
Not only loyal companions and bitter adversaries as well as countless (and often) macabre threats await him, but also a painful confrontation with his dreams and nightmares.
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