Ron Howard may have his sights set on Javier Bardem for the lead in his cross-platform, multi-part film and television adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series. Deadline is reporting that Bardem has been offered the part of Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger.
Envisioned as three films and a television series (to star the same cast), The Dark Tower will bring to the screen King’s fantasy epic that spreads across seven published novels. Howard plans to direct the first part of the series and would at least oversee the rest of the massive adaptation.
Bardem most recently appeared in Biutiful in a part that has landed him an Academy Award nomination. (He previously won a Best Supporting Actor award for his part in 2008’s No Country for Old Men).
The Dark Tower has a tentative release date of May 17, 2013.
