The only thing that’s certain about The Dark Tower is Ron Howard’s involvement. All else is rumor, and misty planning.
Howard spoke to EW today, ostensibly about his Project Imagin8tion with Canon, but the conversation (steered by ka, I imagine) turned to The Dark Tower.
Howard confirmed the project had been pushed back from it’s September 2011 start date until Spring 2012. He’s still confident that it will go ahead as planned — three movies, two television series — but can’t speak to anything else, even the casting. “I can’t really say who’ll be in it yet, but Javier Bardem has shown a great deal of interest. We’ll know by the end of the summer, when our flashing green light goes solid.”
I imagine Bardem’s involvement at this point is dependent on schedule. Spring 2012 may find him wrapped up in a number of projects, and unable and uninterested in taking on such a commitment. By the time this settles, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Roland Deschain with a new face, and Bardem merely being a bit of trivia on an IMDB page.
That is, if The Dark Tower happens at all. A lot could change between now and February 2012.
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Get Hugh Jackman Ron. If you MUST make this, he’d be a much better Roland than Bardem.
The only problem with Jackman will be Van Helsing comparisons.
I’d much rather have Bardem as Roland, and I’d love to see Jamey Sheridan as Walter O’Dim.
I don’t know if anyone watches Oddities on the Discovery Channel, but there’s a sort of Ratso Rizzo fella named Ryan Matthew, and if this guy can act at all he’s a natural born Eddie.
As long as Aaron Paul plays Eddie we’ll be fine. And please no Zoe Saldana for Susannah.
He might be a little long in the tooth, but he would be cool, although as far as geek casting goes I vote William Fichtner.
Christian Bale would make a pretty good Roland. Daniel Day-Lewis would probably be even better, but there’s most likely a snowball’s chance in Hell of that happening.
I stick with wanting someone who looks a little like Eastwood for Roland. That was the image King had. NOT Bardem. He might be a decent actor, but he is totally wrong for the part.
WTF? Last time we heard, Uni was wavering between looking for a distribution partner, and putting the whole thing into turnaround.
This whole three movies, two TV shows, five web series, seventeen comic books, multimedia onslaught seems like too much to take on. Take it to HBO while they’re still high on fantasy from Game of Thrones.
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