Stephen King

Richard Bachman,‬ ‪Matthew McConaughey,‬ ‪Idris Elba‬‬

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......Richard Bachman,‬ ‪Matthew McConaughey,‬ ‪Idris Elba‬‬..... The Dark Tower: The tower has begun to peek above the horizon. After many years, and many attempts, a film version of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is finally getting underway with Idris Elba confirmed as the gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey as the mystical foe known as the man in black. Both the author and the movie’s director and co-writer, Nikolaj Arcel, spoke exclusively with EW about the plan to begin adapting the six-shooter-and-sorcery tale — which spans eight novels, assorted comic books and short stories, and is frequently referenced throughout King’s body of work. “The thing is, it’s been a looong trip from the books to the film,” King says, putting it right in context: “When you think about it, I started these stories as a senior in college, sitting in a little sh-tty cabin beside the river in Maine, and finally this thing is actually in pre-production now.” He laughs. “I’m delighted, and I’m a little bit surprised.” Arcel, who is best known for the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair and for co-writing the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, says he will start shooting The Dark Tower in South Africa in seven weeks, and Sony Pictures plans to have it in theaters on Jan. 13, 2017. Arcel will share screenwriting credit with Anders Thomas Jensen, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner. The producers will be Goldman and his Weed Road company; Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment; and Pinkner as executive producer. “What Stephen King does best is mixing the everyday, or what you might call the mundane, with the fantastical,” says Arcel. “In my view, [The Dark Tower] novels are a mix between sci-fi and fantasy and modern times. That exact mix is so Stephen King.” King says the movie will open with the first line from the first book. “It should start that way,” he says. “I’ve been pretty insistent about that.” He even tweeted it out today: richard bachman richard bachman audiobook richard bachman rage richard bachman richard bachman richard bachmann hörbuch richard bachman richard bachmann richard bachman ␣ richard bachman the regulators the dark tower the dark tower audiobook the dark tower the dark tower movie the dark tower the dark tower the gunslinger audiobook the dark tower the dark tower kingdom rush the dark tower the dark tower review the dark tower the dark tower the gunslinger the dark tower the dark tower iron challenge I created this video with the YouTube Slideshow Creator (http://www.youtube.com/upload)