Stephen King Talks About Dark Tower Movie

It is known that the cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is underway. Idris Elba will be playing the role of the Gunslinger with Matthew McConaughey playing the Man in Black. The novel series consists of eight books.

King and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel spoke about the film adaptation with EW and said, “The thing is, it’s been a looong trip from the books to the film. When you think about it, I started these stories as a senior in college, sitting in a little sh-tty cabin beside the river in Maine, and finally this thing is actually in pre-production now. I’m delighted, and I’m a little bit surprised”.

Arcel states, “What Stephen King does best is mixing the everyday, or what you might call the mundane, with the fantastical. In my view, [The Dark Tower] novels are a mix between sci-fi and fantasy and modern times. That exact mix is so Stephen King”.

Source: blastr.com