The Dark Tower might be back on track ! And, a new Roland is a real possibility.
Mike Fleming at Deadline has posted news that Akiva Goldsman has given Warner Brothers a new script for the first installment of The Dark Tower. A decision to green light the film or not will be made "within two weeks."
And for the big question. . . who would be playing Roland Deschain? How about Russell Crowe? Fleming writes: "I’m told that director Ron Howard and producers Brian Grazer and Goldsman have been talking with their A Beautiful Mind star Russell Crowe about playing Deschain."
Fleming clariies that there is "no deal with Crowe" at the present time.
My wife gives the "oh yeah" go ahead to Crowe. . . I have no idea why. She says he has the "rugged masculinity" that characterizes Roland. "After all," she declared with a bit too much delight, "he was Gladiator." Oh well, my vote is still for Clint Eastwood.
My wife gives the "oh yeah" go ahead to Crowe. . . I have no idea why. She says he has the "rugged masculinity" that characterizes Roland. "After all," she declared with a bit too much delight, "he was Gladiator." Oh well, my vote is still for Clint Eastwood.
The full article is at www.deadline.com
