Just finished reading the dark tower series a month before I heard they will be making a movie. Pretty excited but I find it strange that they are casting the gunslinger as a different race.
Anyone have any thoughts?
I read the first book and thought it was awesome but tried to read the second and couldn't get more than 50 pages in. So I won't be watching it.
Niggers, and what have you.
>>63659883
Honestly glad it's actually going to be made, hopefully it isn't shit. As for Elba, he's a meme, they could find a better Roland in 2-3 weeks of casting.
>>63659934
Weren't they written decades apart though? And the books got progressively weirder but I'm still pretty pumped to see how they make it more cohesive.
>>63659946
I don't really care about him being black, he is a cool actor but it seems really timed with all of this progressive bullshit
>>63659883
What the fuck is that series about?
I read the first Dark Tower book years ago
>tfw what did I just read? nonsense
Tell the story in one paragraph, if that's even possible.
>>63660098
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed
>>63660273
riveting
>>63659883
>>63660020
Did you mind Rico's race being changed from Filipino to white?
>>63660020
>I don't really care about him being black
Why not? Roland is an archetypal cowboy, they weren't black, it doesn't make any sense. might aswell make a samurai film with mexicans.
>>63660629
No, because nobody wants to look at a Filipino and nobody could take him seriously.
>>63660702
I think it's dumb, but I don't care that much. Roland is pretty clearly white and from an Arthurian (white) world. If he's black, though, what does it hurt? It'll just be a little different.
Also, they had plenty of black cowboys. There was also a samurai movie with Tom Cruise, you'll recall.
>>63660808
>If he's black, though, what does it hurt?
the story? if you start changing things that matter and pretending they don't matter, it means you have no understanding of the material you're working with.
a negro is going to try to remember the face of his father
>>63660903
There is no way they don't mess with the story anyways (and they would be dumb not to, considering it's 7 books with tons of filler in them). Every adaptation necessarily involves changes. I don't think that Roland's race is a huge part of the book. I certainly didn't think of it at all until the Odetta scenes (and I can't think of another place where it matters).
>>63660971
Isnt Roland supposed to be descended from King Arthur?
>>63659883
>muh gud n evils
>>63660801
Good of you to show your true colors.
