Jackie Earl Haley (Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street) is currently in negotiations to appear in the film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, which already has locked down Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as “The Gunslinger” and the “Man in Black”, respectively. Haley will be joining in the role of Richard Patrick Sayre, “…a menacing humanoid who is the vampire leader and kowtows to no one. [Source]”
“Gunslinger Roland Deschain (Elba) roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.”
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Akiva Goldman, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Erica Hughes, The Dark Tower will be released on February 17th, 2017.
Additionally, and this is just really cool, Haley has also been locked down to play “The Terror” on Amazon’s revival of “The Tick“. The reboot is being written and executive produced by Ben Edlund, the creator of the original comic.