Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s much-anticipated “Dark Tower” project isn’t dead yet, despite Universal’s cancellation last month of the ambitious screen adaptation of Stephen King’s opus, planned to be three movies and a spin-off TV series. Producer Grazer tells us that despite Universal’s refusal to commit to the sweeping project, director Howard isn’t giving up and is now “trying to get outside financing to make it, and distribute it through a major [studio].” Grazer said they also planned to go ahead with the TV spin-offs of the horror Western fantasies, but through other networks or even Netflix. But the epic “Tower” project, which still has Javier Bardem attached to star as the gunslinger Roland Deschain, will have to be put off until at least next year. Grazer added: “Ron is now going to be working on the Formula One racing movie ‘Rush’ about Niki Lauda, so the soonest we could do it would be June next year.” Grazer, meanwhile, is working on the Hoover biopic “J. Edgar” starring Leo DiCaprio.