Matthew McConaughey Playing Villain in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower?

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As we learned out of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, which will be based on the first novel in the series. After many false starts, it’s finally happening, and a star may have been found.

Per The Wrap, producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard want Matthew McConaughey to play a lead role in the Sony/MRC adaptation, and according to reports the outlet has received, he’s been offered the choice between playing gunslinger Roland Deschain or the villainous Man in the Black.

Both parties are reportedly interested in striking a deal, though we must note that only preliminary discussions have taken place. The badass McConaughey, no stranger to playing evil characters, is allegedly leaning more towards playing the film’s villain – which is quite frankly music to our ears.

King’s book blends horror and fantasy to tell the tale of a gunslinger who has taken up the lifelong quest of locating The Dark Tower – which is the nexus of the universe — before evil invades and destroys the tower, ending all existence.

Sony Pictures and MRC are co-financing the ambitious feature film, which Nikolaj Arcel will direct from a script by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner that’s primarily based on the first book in King’s series, The Gunslinger.

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