- Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:34 pm
#85517
Matthew McConaughey's casting is to my mind perfect, he can play {insert name character is going by here as to not spoil anything of new readers) with the gravitas and mystery needed by some incarnations and the charming good old boy smirk needed for..ahem...others. and Elba is an awesome actor so I'm sure he will be excellent. obviously his casting will change a lot of the initial tension between him and susannah, but otherwise not much will need to change i think. as far as i know, it won't be a direct adaptation of the gunslinger but instead the film series will aim to be an adaptation of the series as a whole, so i expect some condensing/changes/shuffling around. for a series with time jumps, dimensional thin spots, and a cyclical nature woven throughout, it could be done very well, and hopefully will be.
Plenty of the books take place in NY, and its not terribly hard to find parts of manhattan that look like they still did in the time periods that they need to portray, some set decoration is obviously needed, but overall filing in NYC is expected considering 3 major characters have their origins here.
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.