‘Dark Tower’ TV Series Cast Finds Its Roland And Man In Black
By Chris Evangelista/March 21, 2019 9:30 am EST
With that in mind, I guess it makes sense that Strike looks so young – this is a prequel. Which, to be honest, is kind of boring. Why is it so hard for anyone to just adapt what King wrote? Granted, the Dark Tower books are weird, but all the story anyone would need is there for the taking. You don’t even have to remain 100% faithful to the text. Just take the concepts and plot-lines King laid out…and adapt them. It shouldn’t be that complicated!
The Dark Tower TV series is independent from the film and is meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. I hear it will take place many years before the events depicted in the feature and will focus on Roland Deschain’s (Strike) origin story – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger.
The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara is on board as executive producer and showrunner. At one point, this series was intended to tie-into the Dark Tower movie. But after that film failed to generate box office heat, and took a critical drubbing, the decision was made to distance the series from the movie entirely. You’ll hear no objection on that from me – the movie was bad. Yet this new origin story approach doesn’t inspire much confidence, either. Maybe The Dark Tower was never really meant for the screen.
