Idris Elba & Matthew McConaughey to Star in Stephen King's DARK TOWER Film
Stephen King took to Twitter to announce the news that actors Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will star in the big screen adaptation of DARK TOWER. No further details were revealed. Check out the post below:
It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie @McConaughey @IdrisElba
- Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 1, 2016
Stephen King's DARK TOWER book series features themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, Science fantasy, horror, and Western. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian Legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations.
In 2009, King announced an eighth book, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole; published in 2012, it is set between the fourth and fifth books of the series. December 7, 2009 saw the release of a spin-off online game titled Discordia. As of 2010 more than 30 million copies of the series have been sold in 40 countries.
Image courtesy of Dark Tower Official Web Site
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