“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed,”

Of all the movie franchises yet to be out there right now, none have quite as much delirious promise as Stephen King's Dark Tower series, one of the weightiest, wildest epics of modern times. Ron Howard is gearing up to adapt this one of a kind opus as a media-spanning part-feature-part-TV opus and seems very close to announcing his Roland Deschain. There is suddenly a huge amount of Christian Bale talk, hot on the heels of his Golden Globe win for The Fighter. While Bale would no doubt be fantastic, I'm still holding out hope for Viggo on this. His nuance and reserve is just too, too perfect for Childe Roland.

To be continued...