re: The Dark Tower Movie

there is a great short story about Roland in one of his collections. The Sisters of.....something

when i finished the book, i lol'ed thinking holy shite, people are either gonna love this or fricking through the book across the room

AICN is reporting that Christian Bale is the current front runner to play Roland.

I'm surprised he would want to get bogged down in this series.

Yeah but they make the argument against Bale that he isn't grizzled enough which can just as easily be said about Tim.

Liked him in Deadwood but hated him in the Diehard movie.

I haven't seen him in his other show.

I wouldn't be against him as Roland, just pointing out that neither Bale or Olyphant have age worn western grizzling.

So this is going to be a series of movies and not regular TV? There is a possibility if movies. Television, and I just see another Stand or It type of product.

This story is too big for TV or ONE movie.

Even some of the Dark Tower books are too big to fit into one "normal" length 2 hour film.

I would take Bale, Viggo, then Bardem in that order. I could see Bardem playing The Man In Black

They say it will be in theatres in may 2013

There are no more what abouts.

The job has been offered to Bardem. It is in his ball court now.

Heck, he may decide he doesn't want to be bogged down in doing this for the next 8 years or however long it is going to take.