Nightflyers actor Sam Strike has been cast as the Gunslinger Roland Deschain in Amazon’s TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, according to Deadline.
Strike reportedly joins Vikings actor Jasper Pääkkönen in the project, whose undisclosed role is rumored to be Marten, the prospective show’s central villain.
Should it be ordered to pilot and then to series, this adaptation would indpendent from and not connected to the previous film version, which starred Idris Elba.
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