When Universal pushed back the start date of Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, all parties involved promised that the project was still a priority, but Vulture reported that the Tower was toppling: After all, Howard spent this month casting a new racing movie and proposed Dark Tower star Javier Bardem leaped to the next James Bond sequel. Today, Deadline reported that it’s official: Universal has decided not to go forward with the expensive adaptation, spooked by Howard’s desire to buttress his film trilogy with two seasons of a limited-run Dark Tower TV mini-series that would air between each big-screen installment. Another studio could always pick up the project, but that’s an order as tall as the titular tower. [Deadline]