Having seen some of the first pictures of Idris Elba, I’m thinking: Yeah, he’ll be a better Gunslinger than James Bond. And it’s a such a little thing for me, too: Elba likes to have some facial hair. When I think of Bond I kind of think of a character whose essential cruelty has been carefully brought under control through sheer will; and having an absolutely clean-shaven appearance serves as a visual confirmation of that. So Idris Elba would have had to just lose the stubble.
But as Roland? Dude can get away with that half-stubble, half-beard thing he’s got going. Works for the character in a way that it wouldn’t work for Bond.
Moe Lane
PS: The eyes look right. Particularly Matthew McConaughey’s: I can believe that those are the eyes of The Man In Black.
Roland?… the headless Thompson Gunner?
I think it looks good.
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My concern is more with King being directly involved. The best adaptations of his works have taken some rather extensive liberties with the stories they were ostensibly based on.
Hopefully he’s just there to bask in the love and flattery by the cast and crew.