The pieces are slowly but surely coming together for the theatrical adaptation of The Dark Tower that Sony and MRC are financing as some new casting news has surfaced. The latest to board the project is that of Abbey Lee, who we saw this past year as The Dag in Mad Max: Fury Road. For The Dark Tower, she’ll be playing the lead character of Tirana opposite of Idris Elba, who is set as Roland Deschain. The cast also includes Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black.
The first film is planned to work off of the first book in the series with The Gunslinger and the latest draft of it is co-written by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner, working off of what had been developed when it was working its way through both Universal and Warner Bros.
It’s set to be directed by Nikolaj Arcel.
Property concept: In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of “Arthur Eld”, his world’s analogue of King Arthur. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. Many of the magical aspects have vanished from Mid-World, but traces remain as do relics from a technologically advanced society. Roland’s quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland’s world is said to have “moved on”, and it appears to be coming apart at the seams. Mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Sometimes, even the sun rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland’s motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries.
