I’m sure that The Dark Tower movie is now making a lot of noise especially on the casting side. So want to know what’s new? Well, IGN has brought us the short list of actors who may play the lead role of Roland Deschain. Read below for more info.
Director Ron Howard has acknowledged some of the actors being considered to play the lead role of gunslinger Roland Deschain in the filmmaker’s planned epic feature film/TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
In a chat with The Los Angeles Times about the project, “Howard didn’t dodge the topic [of casting Roland] and nodded when names such as Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman and Jon Hamm were mentioned.”
Howard told the paper, “Sure, those are some names and on ‘The Dark Tower’ fansites they’re all about Viggo [Mortensen].”
“We love Roland the Gunslinger but we also like coming back to these worlds and these places. On one hand it is grounded and relatable but on the other hand it’s scary and strange and mind-blowing,” said Howard. “There’s this dream quality to it and the mystery in that is what it’s all about – being compelled forward without all the answers.”
Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and producer Brian Grazer will adapt The Dark Tower, with King, Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road simultaneously developing the property as a TV series. The first season of the TV series is designed to bridge the first and second movies. Universal has slated the first movie in their Dark Tower film trilogy for a Friday, May 17, 2013 release.
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