The Dark Tower TV series is not moving forward at Amazon, according to Deadline, which reports that the studio decided to pass on the pilot as it felt that it was not up to par with the other big-budget genre series (such Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings) coming to the streaming service. Per the outlet, Dark Tower production company MRC is now shopping the pilot around to other studios.

The show was set to star Sam Strike (Nightflyers) as gunslinger protagonist Roland Deschain, Jasper Pääkkönen (Vikings) was reportedly set to play the villainous Man in Black. Deadline reports that the cast also included Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), and Joana Ribeiro (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote).

While the series was originally planned to tie into the 2017 film, Stephen King later explained in an interview with Vulture that that was no longer the case: “The TV series they’re developing now … we’ll see what happens with that. It would be like a complete reboot, so we’ll just have to see.”

Amazon’s The Dark Tower would have instead adapted Wizard & Glass, the fourth book in the King series, which is set decades before Roland begins his quest. This would have been an origin story of sorts for the gunslinger.