Can Hollywood get any more ridiculous? Idris Elba as Roland of Gilead...?
Two major stars could be climbing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. One hopes to cancel the apocalypse…
Supreme badass Idris Elba is in early talks to play gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, with Matthew McConaughey in negotiations to play the villainous Man in Black, TheWrap writes.
Sony Pictures and MRC are co-financing the ambitious feature film, which Nikolaj Arcel will direct from a script by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner that’s primarily based on the first book in King’s series, “The Gunslinger.” Arcel is currently working with Oscar-winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen (Election Night) to rewrite the script...
McConaughey had previously been offered the role of Roland several weeks ago but found himself drawn to the Man in Black upon reading the script.
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3372610/idris-elba-to-star-opposite-matthew-mcconaughey-in-stephen-kings-the-dark-tower/
