Aaron Paul Is Still Rumored to Join Stephen King’s THE DARK TOWER
A couple of years ago we learned that Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul was in talks to join the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. The actor previously said that he had “a ton of meetings” when Ron Howard was still attached to direct to take on the role of Eddie Dean.
A lot has changed since then. The movie is now set up at Sony Pictures and is being directed by Nikolaj Arcel (The Royal Affair), and as of right now the film stars Idris Elba in the role of Roland and Matthew McConaughey as The Man in Black, who is the villain in the story.
We now have word from Blastr that Aaron Paul has actually been cast in the film. The site says the information came from someone inside the production and that they can confirm it. But still, we are going to treat it as a rumor.
It would be cool if the news is true, though! Paul fits the character of Eddie Dean perfectly. The character is introduced in the second book of the series, The Drawing of the Three. He is a smart-ass drug addict living in New York and was pulled to the world of The Dark Tower where he joined Roland on his quest to the Tower.
We recently learned that the first film will start in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning. The director said that the film takes place in our day, in the modern world, so they could be mixing elements from the first three books in the series, which should prove to be interesting.
Their goal is still to do three films and also have a TV series to connect the films to each other. The movie is set to be released on January 13th, 2017, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out! Hopefully this news of Paul being cast in the film is true. Here are a couple of reactions from the actor regarding the rumor that he posted on Twitter:
This is beautiful news. https://t.co/Ktf0SV8HIy
— Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) March 9, 2016
@StephenKing I love you. Also, thanks for all of our kind words regarding BB in the past. I'm sure Dean filled you in on how much it meant.
— Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) March 9, 2016