Amazon's Stephen King Adaptation DARK TOWER Casts Leads

The Hollywood Reporter says that Sam Strike and Jasper Paakkonen will star in Amazon's "Dark Tower," based on Stephen King's novel.

Strike will play Roland Deschain, aka the Gunslinger. Paakkonen will play Roland's adversary, the Man in Black, also known as Randall Flagg and Walter O'Dim (among other names).

The Walking Dead veteran Glen Mazzara will serve as showrunner. "I've been a Stephen King fan for decades, and the opportunity to adapt The Dark Tower as a TV series is a great honor," he told THR in 2017.

"The events of The Gunslinger, Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole and other tales need a long format to capture the complexity of Roland's coming of age - how he became the Gunslinger, how Walter became the Man in Black, and how their rivalry cost Roland everything and everyone he ever loved. I could not be more excited to tell this story."

Read the original story on The Hollywood Reporter.