{"id":21801,"date":"2012-08-21T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2012-08-21T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:55:01","slug":"is-dark-tower-getting-a-last-minute-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/21\/is-dark-tower-getting-a-last-minute-reprieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Is DARK TOWER Getting A Last Minute Reprieve?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday, it looked like Ron Howard\u2019s ambitious adaptation of the Stephen King novel series The Dark Tower<\/em> might have been dead in the water when Warner Brothers became the second major studio to pass on financing the three-film, two-television mini-series project. At the time, I noted that it seemed unlikely that another studio would come forward to pick up the project. But I guess I wasn\u2019t prescient enough to see that someone who wasn\u2019t a studio would step up to the plate.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Media Rights Capital is currently in \u201cserious talks\u201d with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment to fund the epic post-apocalyptic western.<\/p>\n

MRC is the group who helped fund Seth MacFarlane\u2019s comedy Ted<\/strong> and who are also backing Neill Blomkamp\u2019s upcoming science-fiction action film Elysium<\/strong> with Matt Damon.<\/p>\n

Although MRC does have a distribution deal with Universal, it is not readily apparent if the studio will release the film after already having passed on the project before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Howard’s adaptation of the Stephen King series may not be quite as dead as we may have assumed.<\/div>\n

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