Mike Flanagan has promised that his in-development adaptation of The Dark Tower, Stephen King’s epic fantasy saga, will prioritize faithfulness to the sprawling story of the novels. As if Flanagan’s sterling history of bringing King to life with movies like Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game wasn’t enough to make that a bankable promise,

The Mist tells the story of a town besieged by monsters in a mist, with a connection to The Dark Tower. The mist creatures in The Mist may originate from another world, similar to a plot point in The Dark Tower.