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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Javier Bardem for ‘The Dark Tower’
It’s always an exciting time watching a new franchise come into fruition. First, a studio acquires the rights, which gives us an idea how much freedom the filmmakers will have. A visual sense comes into form when they attach a director. Lastly, the cast will be the final representation of what to expect, at least until trailers and images begin to appear online.
Universal Pictures (The Bad), a studio known for diddling with a filmmaker’s vision a bit too much, will be getting behind The Dark Tower. Ron Howard (The Good) directs, who has more power than Universal, therefore we can expect greatness. Now, Javier Bardem (The Ugly) is finally close to sealing his deal to play gunslinger Roland Deschain in the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series that’ll span three movies and a limited run TV series in between each film, reports Deadline. Perfect casting. There’s a lot to be excited for.
Production begins this September on the film, with Howard also confirmed to direct the first TV segment.
Bardem would play Deschain, who becomes humanity’s last hope to save civilization as he hits the road to find the Dark Tower. Along the way, he encounters characters, good and bad, in a world that has an old West feel.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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