Idris Elba to play Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower
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The Dark Tower has been loitering around in “adaptation development hell” for many years now, and fans of Stephen King’s epic western fantasy will finally be relieved to hear the movie is on the verge of being green lit and should be coming to cinemas soon.
Much has been made about the casting of the main character, a mysterious gunslinger known as Roland Deschain, and casting rumours have been rife for many months. However, this week, it was announced that not only do they have their chosen man to play Deschain, they also have a release date too. Their man? Idris Elba. The date? January 13, 2017.
Stephen King himself wrote:
“I think Idris Elba is the greatest possible idea for casting for Roland, and I’m unbelievably proud of it as a collaborator on this enterprise and because I think that he’s a great actor and I couldn’t be more thrilled that he is likely to play a part. I understand that people who are thoughtful about the storytelling and the racial politics of the storytelling might want to understand how that informs that storytelling, and I respect that and I hear that, and those things are not things we didn’t think about or don’t think about.”
