The Dark Tower Movie - as cast by me

[pecosdave]

I was sitting around watching some fan made Dark Tower trailers. Some were utter garbage, but some were pretty danged good. I started thinking about casting since it will most likely be live action. Though I personally think a cell shade rendered series of movies with a color pallet that is usually limited, like was done in 300, only have the

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[anonymous]

You know who they say Abrams wanted as Roland before the project fell apart? Christian Bale. One could do worse. I'm not a huge fan of some of the other more common suggestions: Viggo Mortensen feels like an easy choice. There's nothing to challenge the audience in that, and he lacks world-weariness. Eastwood is definitely too old, and I'm not someone who believes that Roland necessarily needs to be a young man. I like the suggestion of Ed Harris an awful lot. My choice? Russell Crowe. He's exactly the right age, he's a brilliant, brilliant actor who can do pretty much anything, and he just looks like Roland to me.

Jake needs to be an unknown. There should be a massive, much-publicized search. This is in the interest of keeping the budget low, as well as not trying to force a square peg in a round hole just for the sake of name recognition.

I can't believe no one has suggested Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Eddie Dean. He and Ryan Gosling appear to be the best actors of their generation, and Joe looks more like Eddie as described by Stephen King than Gosling does. So many suggestions for Eddie have been so badly off-kilter: Edward Norton, Johnny Depp. Come on, those guys are in their forties. Eddie is 25, if I recall correctly. And maybe I don't. But I know he's not 44. And Seann William Scott is, as has already been established, an astonishingly bad choice.

Kandyse McClure is an incredible choice for Susannah. Susannah is supposed to be older than Eddie, but there's nothing in her character that makes it impossible to ignore that, so in her case the age thing isn't an issue, like it is with Eddie.

James Cromwell IS Pere Callahan. I thought so even before the bad Salem's Lot TV-movie. Kudos on that unique suggestion of Eastwood though. Eastwood gets brought up so much for Roland that it's hard to think of him for anything else.

Walter, Marten, and Flagg should all be played by the same actor, and that actor is Terry O'Quinn. Jamey Sheridan is a fine actor, and his Flagg was scary, but this is a different series and requires a different level of mystery, and O'Quinn has a real facility with that kind of material.

Alain and Cuthbert should, again, be played by unknowns.

Susan Delgado - well, this might be as controversial as Seann William Scott to some, but I'd cast Amanda Seyfried. I know, I know, queen of the shitty romantic drama, but she's such a good actress that I don't care. You ever seen her on Big Love? Amazing. And it's her and Meryl Streep, grounded in honesty as they are, that made Mamma Mia bearable for me.

Logan Lerman is a solid choice for young Roland, probably the best I've heard.

[pecosdave]

I've seen many, but not all Stephen King movies, since I hadn't actually seen the Salems Lot movie I didn't even think about James Cromwell. Considering I actually like James Cromwell, he's had the part before, and I let actors keep their roles form previous movies....

Sure, why not?

Glad you like my Kandyse McClure idea.

I like your Terry O'Quinn suggestion. Considering the nature of Flag I don't see why they couldn't start the movie with "the walkin dude" Jamie Sheridans version walking along in his notorious denim jacket with the happy face button and all then having the jacket morph into a trench coat and have Sheridan morph into O'Quinn. It wouldn't break canon, it would give the audience a gasp and something to think about, and it would be a cool ticket selling special effect. It would be funny if Roland was following sneaker prints a few moment later in the dirt and he sees those morphing into boot prints. I know King didn't put that in his book, but changes are always made for movies and I don't think something like that would soil the source material and would be perfect for movie watchers.