Stupid Clint Eastwood....

[John Q. Mayhem]

Why couldn't he have been born a few decades later so he could play Roland the Gunslinger in a Dark Tower movie?

 

[devilbat]

Yes, yes, yes. It's very easy to picture Clint Eastwood, circa the Good, the Bad and the Ugly days, as Roland.

 

[Dingleberry]

Been a while since I read them, but isn't there a scene in the second book where Roland stops in front of an Eastwood movie poster in New York?

 

[JimAde]

I've read only the first couple novels, but from them I'm confident Viggo Mortenson could pull it off. Who else would be good?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Well, King has said that he based Roland in part on Eastwood, so if Eastwood was born later, there very well may not be a Roland (at least in the way we know him). Isn't circular logic wonderful?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Roland = Eastwood

Yes it's tragic, but a DT movie would be so screwed up by the process of moving it to film It's best left unfilmed. I still need to read book 7, just no time for reading lately!

 

[nakia]

There's a couple of times the Eastwood/Roland comparison is explictly made in the books. Eddie makes the comparision when he and Roland first meet face to face, I think.


A DT movie would be bad. BUT a series/mini-series on HBO or something could get it done, I think, especially given how the series ends:

Spoiler from book 7:

The last episode could end with the beginning of the first episode, except that Roland wears the Horn.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Thank the White that you did the spoiler tags less I would have had to hunt you down.

 

[nakia]

Finish the book. I'm always curious to see what people thought of the ending. I liked it, myself.

And of course I had to put the spolier tag. I'd be in for it if I didn't. Ka is, after all, a wheel.

 

[jester47]

The time to film that movie with its ideal cast was in the late 70's and early 80's when Eastwood was younger and Johnny Cash was still alive.