We see him very well.
Fans of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series got their first glimpse
of Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a.k.a. the Gunslinger, on the set of
the movie adaptation filming in South Africa.
A photo of the 43-year-old British actor dressed as the pistol-packing
Deschain leaked online late Monday, with the star packing the hero’s
signature revolvers in holsters that crisscrossed his waist.
Elba, whose voice is currently roaring in theaters as the tiger Shere
Khan in “The Jungle Book,” cuts an imposing figure on his latest shoot
in dark jeans, boots, a white long-sleeve shirt and vest, with a red
bandana knotted around his neck.
King’s fantasy western series that involves a quartet (known in the
story as a ka-tet) of sharp shooters led by Deschain on a quest to reach
the Dark Tower at the center of all worlds spans eight books and
several graphic novels and short stories. Readers have been salivating
for a film franchise since the first story was published in 1982, and
the project has had many starts and stops.
Now “A Royal Affair” director Nikolaj Arcel, who also cowrote the
Swedish screenplay for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” is finally
directing the film, which began shooting in April. It costars Matthew
McConaughey as the evil wizard Walter Padick, a.k.a. the Man in Black,
who dogs the Gunslinger at every step. “Mad Max: Fury Road's” Abbey Lee
and “Vikings” actress Katheryn Winnick have also been cast.
Sony Pictures has scheduled the film to hit theaters on Feb. 17, 2017.
It will be the first in a series of movies, and a companion television
series is also on deck.
King has warned
that the film starts “in the middle of the story instead of the
beginning. Which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they’ll
get behind it, because it is the story.”
Elba and McConaughey have already begun sparring on Twitter. "The Dark
Tower" books begin with the Man in Black fleeing the Gunslinger across
the desert.
"You have one new follower," Elba teased McConaughey in an April tweet —
and the "Dallas Buyers Club" star countered with, "Come and get me, I
look forward to it."
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