It looks like THE DARK TOWER is finally coming together, with Nikolaj Arcel (A ROYAL AFFAIR) directing and Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as Roland Deshain and the Man in Black, respectively. It appears as if their female lead will be Abbey Lee, the white-haired breeder known as “The Dag” in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.
Lee will be playing Tirana, who, in the books, is a minor character who pops up in book seven, and is described as “sexy and dangerous,” with “fake human skin and cold snake-like eyes.” It’s a little confusing, considering they’re basing the first film strictly on the first book, The Gunslinger, and that she’s being described as a female lead despite the character being a supporting one. Surely, they’re rejiggering stuff for the big screen, but the wording sure makes it a bit of a head-scratcher.
Regardless, Lee has a great look that should be right at home in the stylized world of DARK TOWER, and will hopefully bring whatever fairy dust still in her pockets from the FURY ROAD shoot.
This is one of those I genuinely didn’t think would ever come together, but it looks like it’s finally happening, albeit with a smaller-named director than folks like J.J. Abrams or Ron Howard. The next move is to higher someone to play Jake Chambers, which they’ll have to do fast to get this thing shot, cut, and rendered in time for their release date next January.
How you Tower-heads feel about Lee as Tirana?
THE DARK TOWER finally becomes a movie on January 13th, 2017.
