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.