Eight months after Universal put ambitious multiplatform franchise “The Dark Tower” into turnaround, Warner Bros. confirms that discussions to revive the project have been ongoing, while stressing that no deal is imminent.

Imagine Enertainment president Michael Rosenberg added that Warners is the only studio currently in discussions for the project based on Stephen King’s seven-book “The Dark Tower” series.

Universal had announced a daunting plan in September 2010 to produce three films and a TV series based on King’s epic. Set in an alternate world resembling the Old West, story focuses on the last member of an ancient order of “gunslingers” and his quest toward a tower that’s also the center of all universes.

King, Akiva Goldsman’s Warner-based Weed Road and Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment are producing. Aside from disclosing that Howard will direct the first film from a script that Goldsman is writing, Universal never revealed any dates for “Tower” to come to life.

King’s “Dark Tower” epic has been long pursued for screen adaptation. Before Imagine announced its plans, J.J. Abrams and “Lost” co-creator exec producer Damon Lindelof had optioned rights from King for $19 but were not able to get the project to the starting line.