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Elba & McConaughey confirmed for King’s Dark Tower

After decades of discussions and false starts, it does seem as if Stephen King’s epic seven book series The Dark Tower is heading for the screen, with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in the lead roles of the Gunslinger and the Man in Black. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, it was confirmed that Nikolaj Arcel will start directing the movie […]

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Dragon Tattoo’s Arcel to helm King’s Dark Tower?

Huge Stephen King fan Nikolaj Arcel is in discussions to helm the movie version of Stephen King’s epic, The Dark Tower, according to reports at Deadline. The site suggests that Arcel, who taught himself English in order to read King’s work, will oversee a rewrite of the script for the opening movie, as well as helming it. The current script […]

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HBO for Dark Tower?

Following Brian Grazer’s suggestion that a revised budget might make a Dark Tower movie feasible, he’s now been speaking to MTV, and strongly hinted that he and production partners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman found a home for the television sections of the story. “We’re going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO,” Grazer told MTV. “We’ll do the TV with […]

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Budget cuts mean Dark Tower may be scaled after all?

According to producer Brian Grazer, Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s seven book series The Dark Tower may now get a greenlight, after some serious pruning was made to the budget. Promoting his new movie Tower Heist, Grazer told The Playlist: “We found a way to cut out $45 million out of the budget without changing the scope and […]