Stephen King's "Dark Tower" Books Head to the Screen

Lost fan Stephen King may be fulfilling a dream by working with the series' co-creator J J Abrams. King and Abrams may team up to bring King's Dark Tower book series to the screen. The Hollywood Reporter says it hasn't yet been determined whether the series will air on television or will hit the big screen.

The seven books - The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard's Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower - follow the adventures of gunslinger Roland Deschain of Gilead who exists in an alternate world. While King is best known for his creepy horror stories, The Dark Tower series is much more a fantasy than a horror story.

Film adaptations of King's work have met with mixed results. Carrie, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, Pet Sematary, Stand By Me and The Green Mile made the leap without a problem, however something was lost in translation with the movie adaptations of Hearts in Atlantis, Dreamcatcher and Secret Window.

Other King books heading to the big screen include The Mist, 1408, and Cell.