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.

Back in August, we reported the team behind Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves) were chosen by Warner Brothers to adapt Stephen King's 1,152-page-long The Stand into a multi-film series.

Watch out, dude.

No, sadly, it's not called "The Shinning.

Stephen King movies typically fall into two categories: "classic films that everyone should see" and "ridiculously horrible movies that make you wish it was possible to remove the last two hours of your life.

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.