First look at Idris Elba in The Dark Tower!

The social media is where you’ll find your first look at Idris Elba, as he appears in the long-gestating feature film version of “The Dark Tower”. Elba plays The Gunslinger in a movie based on the Stephen King story, with Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Fran Kranz, and Katheryn Winnick co-starring.

First look of Idris Elba on the set of Stephen King's THE DARK TOWER pic.twitter.com/ddmogH3Zgy

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Director Nikolaj Arcel said of Elba, when casting was announced : “For me, it just clicked. He’s such a formidable man…I had to go to Idris and tell him my vision for the entire journey with Roland and the ka-tet. We discussed, who is this character? What’s he about? What’s his quest? What’s his psychology? We tried to figure out if we saw the same guy. And we absolutely had all the same ideas and thoughts. He had a unique vision for who Roland would be.”