Ron Howard On The Dark Tower: Still Moving Forward, Javier Bardem NOT Confirmed

DARK TOWER would be amazingly epic, hurry up already! ; P

say What, hurry this thing up along! and, nothing against Javier, I always pictured Christian Bale in the part, and would rather see him...but Javiers a great actor too, so...lol

woo hoo!

Tom Jane.

I know i'm speaking out of place here since i've never read King's Dark Tower series, but i've glanced at the comics and book covers and as much as i love Viggo, the character seems to require a certain amount of grit. Personally, i've always seen Viggo as this shining jewel that always seems so clean cut no matter how much you dirty him up. Christ, he practically outshined the elves in LOTR, even with that stubble and hood on. Remember the first scene we saw him in(LOTR), he pierced through that dark lit room like he was the freakin' Sun! If Hollywood was planning on remaking Jesus of Nazareth, he'd be the one i'd pick no matter who was in the running!(I know, it's ironic that he actually played Satan before LOL Which i felt he stood out yet again BTW) Now Tom Jane on the other hand, he's got grit up the ass and out the mouth! He also has that silent western acting method down to a science. And since he doesn't have Viggo's resume and attention, he would surely cost a lot less, especially to keep him on board for further films AND an interwoven TV series.

TyrannicalOverlord- Pearce i'm certain, would sell it in spades. A brilliant example of the "grit" i was talking about ;)

Hope they get it made!

If Javier doesnt take the lead role! Viggo Mortensen, James Caviezel, Thomas Jane or Mike Fassbender all the way!

Ron Howard? Oh come on. There wasn't another famous director with some actual talent they could hire for this franchise? I really don't understand why Ron Howard is still allowed to make movies.

Viggo or Bale, Viggo certainly looks almost exactly the way i envision Roland of Gilead, but i feel like Bale has better acting chops, I've seen almost all of his movies and I have a feeling that he could pull off any role given to him, not to mention that he'd be out of his element which means (if Heath Ledger has taught us anything) that he'll have to try even harder and could possibly be Roland Deschain in the same way that Hugh Jackman IS wolverine

But if he isn't chosen to play the Gunslinger, he would make an excellent Eddie Dean (although BJ Novak looks the part to me, the only problem is that he can't act)

Dakota Goyo would make a good Jake Chambers, although there are no other actors immediately brought to mind that seem that way, and he could be a dreadful miscast

I really wish, since they ARE moving forward with The Dark Tower, that someone would FINALLY adapt "The Talisman"! One of my ALL TIME favorite King novels! I had heard at one time that Spielberg now owns the rights to that and supposedly it was going to be adapted into an HBO or Showtime miniseries, but, to date, have yet to hear anything else about it.

PLEASE NO!, Do not hurry production on this show. This is a complicated series and a huge undertaking. Please for the love of all that is pure and precious, take the time to get this right. I don't think I'm out of line when I say most of Kings stories get butchered when made into movies and TV series ie; Thinner, The Stand, IT!,The langoliers and others. Not to say that they are all bad, they just rarely do the books justice. If this production (movies/TV series) works out well we should see this type of story telling more often.So please Mr. Howard, take the time you need to give this the justice it deserves, I'll be patient if you promise to blow my mind. -Thankee Sai.

Still waiting for the HBO mini series of Under the Dome, Can someone get on this already.

-Always remember the face of your father

Guy Pearce all the way. He deserves a big part like this. He is one of my favorite actors. Loved him in Memento and The Proposition!!

I like the idea of Viggo but Guy Pearce can do that whole lost in thought and mentally somewhere else while still payign attention to the situation thing which is how I always pictured Roland. When I read the books I always saw Clint Eastwood. He would have been perfect back int the day.