Rumor: Naomie Harris Being Considered for Dark Tower Female Lead

Nice one eks. She's lovely. Shame her character was totally wasted in POTC by growing and turning into a pile of crabs...for absolutely no reason!

Ror- No kidding. She's been great in everything I've seen her in, especially POTC. I hope this one ends up happening, she'd be an awesoem addition.

Good casting. Not a fan of POTC but she can def pull off Detta/Susannah/Mia.

Milo Ventimiglia would make a good Eddie imho.

She was great on ALEINS VS PREDATOR, awesome actress!

.... Ah wait a minute thats Sanaa Lathan! : p

That would be some great casting!

Alex @ That is EPIC!

josh hatnet, christian bale or thomas jane should be roland.

steve buscemi is the only person who can play eddy.

im cool with this casting for susannah but think it should have gone too Shanésia Davis Williams

crimson king should be christopher walkem


and calaham should be lance herikensen.


we are getting closer.

am reading salems lots, just to get evem more involved,

this is gonna be like lord of the rings all over again

ambushbug, yeah you are right, this is more of fantasy cast for me, most of my choices are too old to play the parts.

but i think buscemi when he was younger, would have been perfect, i can just picture him, having it out with blaine the mono.

im sure none of my choices will be considerd, what do you think of thomas jane being roland

oh and i have read the books, some of them ive read twice, lol

Rolanddeschain19@ Jane as Roland and Walken as Randall Flagg doesnt sound that bad! Specially Jane would be cool! Walken maybe too old? I prefer Gary Oldman who is one of my favorite actors!

PERFECT casting. I imagined Susannah as Zoe Saldana, but Naomie Harris looks very close, and Saldana will probably be too busy with Star Trek 2 and Avatar 2 & 3 anyway.

I seriously hope Viggo gets the part of Roland. He's a FANTASTIC choice, for reasons many people have already said.

Now come on Ron, cast NATHAN GAMBLE as Jake Chambers! He's the right age (12), he's a terrific actor with the most amazing emotive ability I've seen in a child that age (watch him in The Mist and The Dark Knight, he's great!), he looks perfect for the part (blonde hair, and a great kind of wide-eyed innocence to him), he's already got experience starring in a Stephen King film (The Mist). Look NATHAN GAMBLE up on IMDb and see for yourself – he IS Jake Chambers! He's such an EXCELLENT fit for the role that I'll be very disappointed if it goes to anyone else, especially some tween prettyboy like Justin Bieber... most child actors can come off as annoying brats, but Gamble is the most likeable kid working in Hollywood today. He has the acting chops needed for all the crazy situations Jake goes through.

Oh, and get JARED LETO for Eddie! He's got the tall with pale skin and black hair look that most people picture Eddie as, and in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, he played a heroin junkie! This can't be coincidence – this is KA! Leto's a bit old for the part of Eddie, true, but he looked not a day older than twenty in Requiem, and he was about thirty when they filmed it. He can pull it off!

Remember the face of your father, Ron Howard! Mortensen & Harris are TERRIFIC choices, just keep up the good work!

And here's the rest of my dream cast:

Roland Deschain = Viggo Mortensen
Susannah Dean = Naomie Harris
Jake Chambers = Nathan Gamble
Eddie Dean = Jared Leto
The Man in Black = Peter Stormare
Walter o'Dim = Christopher Walken
Randall Flagg = Jamey Sheridan
Marten Broadcloak = Gary Oldman
Maerlyn = Alan Howard
The Crimson King = Christopher Lee
Jack Mort = Philip Seymour Hoffman
Enrico Balazar = James Caan
Calvin Tower = Tom Hardy
Aaron Deepneau = Lance Henriksen
Gasher = Andy Serkis
The Tick-Tock Man = Ron Perlman
Blaine the Mono = Clancy Brown
Little Blaine = Freddie Highmore
Steven Deschain = Daniel Day-Lewis
Cort = Brendan Gleeson
Arthur Eld = Clint Eastwood
Cuthbert Allgood = Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Young Roland = Logan Lerman
Alain Johns = Sam Rockwell
Susan Delgado = Kat Dennings
Eldred Jonas = Sam Elliot
Clay Reynolds = Javier Bardem
Roy Depape = Damian Lewis
Sheemie Ruiz = Adrien Brody
Mia = Monica Bellucci
Andy = Anthony Daniels
Father Callahan = James Cromwell
Ted Brautigan = Anthony Hopkins
Ralph Roberts = Christopher Lloyd
Dandelo = Tim Curry
Mordred Deschain = Cillian Murphy
Young Stephen King = Joe Hill King

And throw in cameos for a few other Stephen King characters too! Give JACK NICHOLSON a cameo as Jack Torrance from The Shining, CATHY BATES a cameo as Annie Wilkes from Misery, DREW BARRYMORE a cameo as Charlie McGee from Firestarter, SISSY SPACEK a cameo as Carrie, TIM ROBBINS and MORGAN FREEMAN cameos as Andy and Red from The Shawshank Redemption! Have dozens of Stephen King film characters turn up in Mid-World! Seriously, it's no more crazy than what happens in the last three books!

alexdelarge666@ thanks, bro, I've had this cast in my mind for a long time, so happy that they're finally going through with it. Still wish that JJ Abrams didn't wet the bed and bail out on this, but hey, maybe ron howard will blow the doors off this

Flagg@ not to put a damper on your cast, but you do realize that you have 5 different people cast as one character(man in black)? I do love finding a spot for Cillian Murphy, Ron Perlman, Clancy Brown, and Daniel Day Lewis. Anyplace you can get them in this project is a must.

flagg@ you raise a good point, it'd be a cool thing to do with him. I read the dt comics, as well, and I hope that they do something with that in the future, maybe an animated series, or even a tv show, like they did for the walking dead, that would be epic!

flagg@ aww man, that's great news! glad to hear that. That series is made for tv. Battle of Jericho Hill was a great read, I could easily see a gritty tv series for this, if A&E, or FX channel gets it, they seem to be able to push the envelope better than the other networks. After all these years, I'm finally gonna get what i've been asking for.