Stephen King films have been hit or miss over the years, and The Dark Tower series is going to be a tough one to pull off. J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof are walking on very thin ice with this one. Anyway, MovieBlog got a quote from Lindelof on the film’s progress:

“The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable.

There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.”

Yeah that pretty much tells us nothing, but seven movies? That’s some wishful thinking on his part.