After many years and several
attempts, Stephen King's The Dark Tower is finally getting the big screen
treatment with Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,
A Royal Affair) attached to direct, and now Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey
officially confirmed as starring.
The author confirmed Elba and McConaughey's
casting via social media. Elba will play the lead hero Roland Deschain in the
adaptation of King's sprawling 8-part book series, while McConaughey will be
the antagonist man in black Randall Flagg.
It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie @McConaughey @IdrisElba— Stephen King (@StephenKing) 1 de março de 2016
"When you think about it, I started these stories
as a senior in college, sitting in a little sh-tty cabin beside the river in
Maine, and finally this thing is actually in pre-production now," King told
EW. "I’m delighted, and I’m a little bit surprised."
— Idris Elba (@idriselba) 1 de março de 2016
— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) 1 de março de 2016
"What Stephen King does best is mixing the
everyday, or what you might call the mundane, with the fantastical," says
Arcel. "In my view, [The Dark Tower] novels are
a mix between sci-fi and fantasy and modern times. That exact mix is so Stephen
King."
The Dark Tower is set to begin production
in seven weeks in South Africa.
Source - EW
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