Stephen King Thinks THE DARK TOWER Movie Will Happen With Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey

A film version of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novels has been in the works for years, vacillating between life and death every few months in a series of seemingly never-ending updates. Directors and actors have joined and fallen away over the years, but things are finally locking into place. Nikolaj Arcel will direct, and the most recent rumors peg Idris Elba as gunslinger Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black. We already know King is cool with that casting decision, but in a new interview with Rolling Stone, he seems confident that the movie will happen with those actors attached:

"It looks to me like it's more likely than not it'll happen at this point," he says. "Let's put it that way."
"I think that it's more likely than not that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will be in it," King says. "But I can't say with any certainty. I know that they're trying to make deals with these actors [and] with Sony, and that's the extent of my knowledge."

That's great news for those of us who think Elba and McConaughey would be great fits for the roles, but as someone who just finished reading the first Dark Tower novel for the first time a couple of weeks ago, I'm more concerned with how the hell they're going to turn that into a watchable movie. Not very much happens in the first book, and the stuff that does is pretty weird — maybe a bit too out there for general audiences. It'll be fascinating to see how they move forward with this adaptation, but at least King seems to think they're closer than ever to finally starting production.

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