Warner Brothers just passed on developing Ron Howard's 'The Dark Tower' movie trilogy and TV show, but this gunslinger ain't dead yet.

The very long saga of The Dark Tower's movie and TV development is hitting a new level of complication like Russell Crowe hits concierges.

If you've already been following the development of the three movies and two seasons of a TV show based on Stephen King's The Dark Tower, then you can skip past the rest of this long paragraph.

Just recently, The Dark Tower producer Brian Grazer said they had shaved $45 million out of the first movie's budget to help it get made after Universal dropped the project over cost concerns.

Watch out, dude.

A couple months ago Universal and Ron Howard's development of Stephen King's The Dark Tower Now Universal has passed on The Dark Tower and on Guillermo del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness adaptation over concerns about the cost, and yet they're still paying over $200 million for a movie based on a board game directed by Peter Berg (Hancock) and starring Taylor Kitsch.

Earlier this month Deadline reported Universal had placed the pre-production staff on hiatus for Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman, and Brian Grazer's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

Back in January we reported Javier Bardem was being sought to play Roland Deschain in the film trilogy and TV adaptation of Steven King's Dark Tower series.

We've previously reported on Ron Howard's upcoming film and TV adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, but the one thing that's everyone's been asking is: who can they get to play lead character and gunslinger Roland Deschain.