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Jackie Earle Haley Joins Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’
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.
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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