But one-time The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara, who was running the series before Amazon passed on it, at least sounds like he had an idea of where to go with it. Just ask the universally loathed 2017 movie. It's the pizza you have in the oven, and it's burning.At one point, Stephen King is a character in the books it’s a weird series that would have been hard to get right. Do we smell a crossover? ( Editor's note: No, almost certainly not. Incidentally, that novel also has a TV adaptation brewing in the form of a miniseries at CBS All Access, which happens to be available as an addition to your Amazon Prime membership. Among his other monikers: Walter Padick, Walter O'Dim, and - most significantly - Randall Flagg, the guise in which he appears in King's masterful 1978 post-apocalyptic novel The Stand. While Pääkkönen's role has not been announced, Deadline's sources say that he's thought to be playing none other than the Man in Black, who is actually ( minor spoilers, we suppose) an immortal sorcerer who goes by many names.
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The 25-year old has displayed considerable acting chops, though in addition to his Nightflyers role, he held down the lead in the little-seen, underrated 2018 horror flick Monster Party, and also appeared as real-life serial killer Monte Rissell in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. The recasting of the lead role can be taken as confirmation that the series will constitute a complete reboot, and Strike is an interesting choice - particularly because he's way, way younger than the image of the Gunslinger that most King fans carry in their heads.
The streamer's plan for the property now appears to be finally coming to fruition, as casting has begun despite the lack of a formal greenlight. A planned tie-in TV series to be showran by Glen Mazzara ( The Walking Dead), with Elba and McConaughey potentially reprising their roles, was scrapped in the wake of the movie's failure, and Amazon acquired the rights in early 2018.
In attempting unsuccessfully to remix portions of King's seven voluminous novels into a coherent narrative, the film alienated fans of those novels while bewildering newcomers to the story. Abrams and Ron Howard attached to direct at various points it was eventually helmed by Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, who frankly turned in a mess of a picture. The film went through a decade-long development process, with J.J. You may remember (or, judging by its dismal box office performance, you may not) that the story was partially adapted in the 2017 feature The Dark Tower, which starred the very able Idris Elba as Roland and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black. I do not kill with my gun he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I do not shoot with my hand he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
We'll let him explain why: "I do not aim with my hand he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. Also, as the last surviving Gunslinger and a direct descendant of Arthur Eld (his world's equivalent of King Arthur), he is ridiculously deadly with his twin pistols, which were forged from the steel of Excalibur itself. He's prone to odd yet insightful turns of phrase, lives by a strict moral code, and is single-minded in the extreme in pursuit of the Man in Black and the Tower. Roland is among the most well-drawn and idiosyncratic characters in King's entire bibliography.
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