Hile Gunslingers, we have a special treat for you guys on this Round Table for the first time we have a guest joining us. EW Senior Writer and huge fan of Uncle Stevie and The Dark Tower, Anthony Breznican. Anthony wrote the cover story and the other Dark Tower Articles that have been all over EW the end of last week and beginning of this week. Anthony was in Cape Town and interviewed Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey and Nikolaj Arcel. As well as talked to Uncle Stevie on the phone. Anthony shares some insights into his background with Sai King as well as some insights into writing these stories and even gives us a few small nuggets that may not have made it into the articles. We finish up the show with a few emails.
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I wanted to give you guys some scenes from the Idris Elba Greatest hits album. I am going to do this until the release of the film. These are both pretty light on the spoilers.
First The Wire, Idris Elba plays the second in command to a drug Empire, and the bosses nephew is dropping off his earnings for the day. It is a subtle scene, not very flashy, but the brilliance of Idris is on display, especially considering he is a Brit.
Next is from Luther, Idris is John Luther and he has come face to face with a killer who has been put on the path by his emotionally abusive and manipulative father. Here Idris plays a man not as hard-edged as Roland on the surface but as the scene goes on you see the mettle that is just below the surface.
Might be off topic but Anthony Breznican also had a story and reveal of the first look at It from the upcoming film. Since we mentioned it HERE is a link, coulrophobics beware.
Hile Gunslingers, let us Palaver. Tadd and Peter return to the Round Table (Arthur Eld would be pleased) and this time they go through emails talking meeting Stephen King, to being worried about the films, to a newcomers dream cast. Then in the news there is some casting news, some tweets, some Facebook posts, some Instagram posts, and a bunch of set photos as the Dark Tower moves from South Africa to New York City. The biggest highlight is the first really good look at Matthew McConaughey as Randall mother fucking Flagg!
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First up Matt emailed in and mentioned this song as his personal theme for Roland. He played this game concurrently with reading the final book.
Our first article was talking about Michael Barbieri (Timmy, friend of Jake) being cast in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming. Check it at Heroic Hollywood.
Next here is a screen grab of Idris Elba’s Father’s Day Tweet,
Next up is the tweet by the band Cloakroom claiming to be scoring the film. After recording this was proven false.
Next just as a followup, we did mention Junkie XL being listed on IMDB in the show, but his confirmation came the next day, here is a screen grab of that,
Next up is the pictures from the Nicholas Hamilton sleuthing, this is his first pictures posted from South Africa,
Second was from the same post on his Facebook this reveals his character’s name.
Next up is from Nicholas Hamilton’s Instagram from Cape Town. Most interestingly is the script with the revisions on it.
The last Facebook post from Nicholas Hamilton, he along with Tom Taylor,
Next up an article in which Matthew McConaughey talks briefly at the end about Randall Flagg. Via The Daily Beast.
Next up is the short article highlighting filming locations and dates for The Dark Tower movie in New York City. Via On Location Vacations.
Yeah I misspoke and called Ron Howard the Director, but here is the picture he tweeted out on Saturday. In New York City with Idris in costume as well as a very tanned Nikolaj Arcel.
Next up is a handful of the Idris set photos from New York City, a few even have he and Jake together for our first time as an audience seeing them together.
For set photos last and most certainly not least is Matthew McConaughey in costume as Randall Mother Fucking Flagg,
Just a bonus, also mentioned on the show, Tom Taylor took this picture and someone on the internet added the text.
One behind the scene shot tweeted out from Idris from New York.
That is it for this week, but I will leave you with some Hey Jude to say Long Days and Pleasant Nights.
