@jonny_anonymous: Eddie's my absolute fave, haha. But yeah...I worry with Oy because the character walks a very fine line in terms of what he can and can't do. Very curious about how cartoonish he might end up. Wouldn't want them to go too far.
My mental image was always Walton Goggins, but Mcconaughey can play a great Flagg, Russ from True Detective is just him conceptualising and spitting out ideas. Elba is a master of independent acting, you can really see the emotions playing out internally with him, so with somebody like Mccounaghey to bounce off, it could be great.
Imagine the two of them together in the campfire scene. This could be great. For me, Elba wouldn't suit Flagg at all.
It would be great if Mccounaghey reprises the role in The Stand, years ago the rumour was he was going to play him in a quadrilogy of The Stand. With all these shared universes, I'd love to see the Stephen King Multiverse on the screen.
My mental image was always Walton Goggins, but Mcconaughey can play a great Flagg, Russ from True Detective is just him conceptualising and spitting out ideas. Elba is a master of independent acting, you can really see the emotions playing out internally with him, so with somebody like Mccounaghey to bounce off, it could be great.
Imagine the two of them together in the campfire scene. This could be great. For me, Elba wouldn't suit Flagg at all.
It would be great if Mccounaghey reprises the role in The Stand, years ago the rumour was he was going to play him in a quadrilogy of The Stand. With all these shared universes, I'd love to see the Stephen King Multiverse on the screen.
My mental image was always Walton Goggins, but Mcconaughey can play a great Flagg, Russ from True Detective is just him conceptualising and spitting out ideas. Elba is a master of independent acting, you can really see the emotions playing out internally with him, so with somebody like Mccounaghey to bounce off, it could be great.
Imagine the two of them together in the campfire scene. This could be great. For me, Elba wouldn't suit Flagg at all.
It would be great if Mccounaghey reprises the role in The Stand, years ago the rumour was he was going to play him in a quadrilogy of The Stand. With all these shared universes, I'd love to see the Stephen King Multiverse on the screen.
Because Elba is black. That's why I said, he should play The Man in Black. :P
Plus, he's going to have a villainous role in Star Trek: Beyond. So, it would've been great to see him taking on the Flagg role. I know Elba is a good actor, but's it's kinda weird for him to play Roland. I've read some of the Dark Tower comics. Roland is white, and for Flagg, it wouldn't matter. He can just wear that black robe over him, almost covering his face.
In Arrow, the black actor who played the villain Baron Reiter, who is originally white from the comics, worked. Because the actor definitely fit the character. I can't see Elba playing as Roland.
My mental image was always Walton Goggins, but Mcconaughey can play a great Flagg, Russ from True Detective is just him conceptualising and spitting out ideas. Elba is a master of independent acting, you can really see the emotions playing out internally with him, so with somebody like Mccounaghey to bounce off, it could be great.
Imagine the two of them together in the campfire scene. This could be great. For me, Elba wouldn't suit Flagg at all.
It would be great if Mccounaghey reprises the role in The Stand, years ago the rumour was he was going to play him in a quadrilogy of The Stand. With all these shared universes, I'd love to see the Stephen King Multiverse on the screen.
Because Elba is black. That's why I said, he should play The Man in Black. :P
Plus, he's going to have a villainous role in Star Trek: Beyond. So, it would've been great to see him taking on the Flagg role. I know Elba is a good actor, but's it's kinda weird for him to play Roland. I've read some of the Dark Tower comics. Roland is white, and for Flagg, it wouldn't matter. He can just wear that black robe over him, almost covering his face.
In Arrow, the black actor who played the villain Baron Reiter, who is originally white from the comics, worked. Because the actor definitely fit the character. I can't see Elba playing as Roland.
Sure but other than Idris being black he's pretty much perfect for the role. He's a fantastic actor and he has that older grizzled look and a commanding presence so with all that in mind his skin colour doesn't really matter.
Also Flagg is to charismatic and manipulative to be hiding under a cloak the whole time. He's pretty much exactly Rust from True Detective if he had a horrible smirk on his face the whole time he was spouting his nihilism.
I wanted Viggo Mortensen as Roland really bad. Anyway, this is going to be a Harry Potter-esque movie for what i read around, so i'll stick to the books and comics.
My mental image was always Walton Goggins, but Mcconaughey can play a great Flagg, Russ from True Detective is just him conceptualising and spitting out ideas. Elba is a master of independent acting, you can really see the emotions playing out internally with him, so with somebody like Mccounaghey to bounce off, it could be great.
Imagine the two of them together in the campfire scene. This could be great. For me, Elba wouldn't suit Flagg at all.
It would be great if Mccounaghey reprises the role in The Stand, years ago the rumour was he was going to play him in a quadrilogy of The Stand. With all these shared universes, I'd love to see the Stephen King Multiverse on the screen.
Because Elba is black. That's why I said, he should play The Man in Black. :P
Plus, he's going to have a villainous role in Star Trek: Beyond. So, it would've been great to see him taking on the Flagg role. I know Elba is a good actor, but's it's kinda weird for him to play Roland. I've read some of the Dark Tower comics. Roland is white, and for Flagg, it wouldn't matter. He can just wear that black robe over him, almost covering his face.
In Arrow, the black actor who played the villain Baron Reiter, who is originally white from the comics, worked. Because the actor definitely fit the character. I can't see Elba playing as Roland.
Sure but other than Idris being black he's pretty much perfect for the role. He's a fantastic actor and he has that older grizzled look and a commanding presence so with all that in mind his skin colour doesn't really matter.
Also Flagg is to charismatic and manipulative to be hiding under a cloak the whole time. He's pretty much exactly Rust from True Detective if he had a horrible smirk on his face the whole time he was spouting his nihilism.
I wanted Viggo Mortensen as Roland really bad. Anyway, this is going to be a Harry Potter-esque movie for what i read around, so i'll stick to the books and comics.
I wanted Viggo Mortensen as Roland really bad. Anyway, this is going to be a Harry Potter-esque movie for what i read around, so i'll stick to the books and comics.
This movie has been confirmed like a bazillion times in the past 20 years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Loved the books, but I can't see them translating well at all for a movie. It would be a better TV series of anything.
This movie has been confirmed like a bazillion times in the past 20 years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Loved the books, but I can't see them translating well at all for a movie. It would be a better TV series of anything.
Exactly! this series deserves a TV show, not a movie.
This movie has been confirmed like a bazillion times in the past 20 years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Loved the books, but I can't see them translating well at all for a movie. It would be a better TV series of anything.
Exactly! this series deserves a TV show, not a movie.
The Gunslinger could work as a film in my opinion, after that it get's far trickier and dilution is inevitable. The plan was to have it change between movie and TV, but I don't know if that plan is in effect. That would be preferable, but I don't know how well it would work, by which I mean, how profitable it would be for the studios to make them want to pursue it.
This movie has been confirmed like a bazillion times in the past 20 years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Loved the books, but I can't see them translating well at all for a movie. It would be a better TV series of anything.
Exactly! this series deserves a TV show, not a movie.
The Gunslinger could work as a film in my opinion, after that it get's far trickier and dilution is inevitable. The plan was to have it change between movie and TV, but I don't know if that plan is in effect. That would be preferable, but I don't know how well it would work, by which I mean, how profitable it would be for the studios to make them want to pursue it.
The Gunslinger book would be a great movie. The scene where he kills an entire town would be awesome on the big screen.
That entire book could also almost be summed up in about a pilot episode though. Not a whole lot happens in that book, and the backstory parts of that book could be added in later episodes, and have the second episode leading to Jake and his first death. Do I need spoilers at this point? lol
This movie has been confirmed like a bazillion times in the past 20 years or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Loved the books, but I can't see them translating well at all for a movie. It would be a better TV series of anything.
Exactly! this series deserves a TV show, not a movie.
The Gunslinger could work as a film in my opinion, after that it get's far trickier and dilution is inevitable. The plan was to have it change between movie and TV, but I don't know if that plan is in effect. That would be preferable, but I don't know how well it would work, by which I mean, how profitable it would be for the studios to make them want to pursue it.
The Gunslinger book would be a great movie. The scene where he kills an entire town would be awesome on the big screen.
That entire book could also almost be summed up in about a pilot episode though. Not a whole lot happens in that book, and the backstory parts of that book could be added in later episodes, and have the second episode leading to Jake and his first death. Do I need spoilers at this point? lol
I agree. Honestly, they could've done a two part mini-series special on HBO, it would've been super-cheap and they could gauge public interest with it. If it were popular, they could follow it up with a full season that adapted TDOT3.
Still, I'm hopeful for the films, there's enough material in each LotR book to make an eight hour TV show, but the movies are still some of the greatest films ever made, so with a big budget and. Part of me hopes they do go ahead with the early plan of switching back and forth between film and TV, but I doubt it'll happen.
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