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Confirmation has come that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will star in the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger”.
Elba will play the titular hero while McConaughey is on board to play the villain known as The Man In Black.
The news comes via an EW interview with both King and the film’s director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel.
Of Elba’s casting, Arcel said:
“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.”
Of McConaughey’s casting, the director said:
“Matthew is an incredible actor who can do anything. That’s how I feel about Walter Padick. He could do anything… He is this timeless sorcerer, and being a Stephen King fan, I’ve read and experienced Walter in various iterations. He has a very interesting way of seeing the world. He sees it with a sort of delight, even though he is obviously on the wrong side of the light-and-dark spectrum. He’s someone I’ve been having a lot of fun with.”
The film is set to release on January 13, 2017.
