With respect to casting, King doesn’t have much to offer in an interview with EW. That sort of thing isn’t really his provenance, after all. He does say “when I write about Susannah Dean, I always kind of see Angela Bassett in my mind’s eye,” and jokes that he’d want the Twilight cast in the project.
He does have a bit to say about the movies+TV angle, which was the brainchild of Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman.I always thought it would take more than a single movie [to adapt The Dark Tower], but I didn’t see this solution coming — i.e., several movies and TV series…I don’t see [the restrictions of network TV] as a problem at all! We’ll have just enough latitude to make a great series. I’ve worked in network TV before, and every time I was squeezed a little, it just made me look for creative solutions. Besides, I always like to play in the biggest auditorium available!
The lingering question is whether King might have a role of his own. Probably not the best idea, as much as I love his work on-screen in Creepshow. But given the chance, he says, “I’d love to be the voice of Blaine the Mono.”
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