Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem (Biutiful) is close to securing a deal to co-star in Universal Pictures’ feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth 7-novel series The Dark Tower.
Bardem is in line to topline the film as Roland Deschain.
Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of a dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) is attached to direct from a script by Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind).
Production is scheduled to commence in September.
Source: Deadline
