Next year , the Dark Tower movie is fail to dispatch theater — but a year later , it ’ll have its very own associate television set show hitting the airwaves , feature at least one of the the film ’s major champion . And now we finally have some details — include the fact that the movie ’s star Idris Elba will appear on the show as well .
Entertainment Weeklyreports that the television set serial will be an adaptation of the fourth entry in King ’s saga , Wizard and Glass . The show will feature a framing equipment where Roland , Elba ’s character in the picture , and Jake Chambers , a young boy with visions of the mysterious tower played in the film ( and show ) by Tom Taylor , flashback to Roland ’s stock as a gunslinger . A new actor will play the untried Roland , and while Elba ’s interest is confirmed , Matthew McConaughey ’s Man in Black is not — the character will decidedly come along , but McConaughey is not yet shut up in for the show , so it could be play by another worker .
Other inside information about the series are sparse , but Dark Tower director Nikolaj Arcel and his co - writer Anders Thomas Jensen are both add playscript to the TV series , which is plan to run for 10 to 13 episodes . No cable web or cyclosis service has develop the series yet , but the plan is to produce the show first , and center on finding someone to transmit it afterward .
We ’ll bring you more on the series as we live it , but for now , you’re able to look the Dark Tower video show to publicise sometime in 2018 , timed with the home release of next year ’s pic .
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