![]() All we know is that he seeks The Dark Tower, which readers come to learn is sort of a linchpin of reality itself. We meet Roland as he crosses an impossibly huge desert, trailing the Man in Black. Roland is the last of the gunslingers, heirs of Arthur Eld, the figure we’d know as King Arthur of Camelot. Very briefly, Roland Deschain’s world is one of magic, chivalry, demons, and lots of guns and doors. Loosely based on the Robert Browning poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, King’s epic series consists of seven main novels and two other longer narratives which are tangential to the main story. ![]() In our (perhaps lesser) reality, Amazon passed on the project, possibly because with its Wheel of Timeseries and the upcoming Lord of the Ringsshow, a third big-budget sci-fi/fantasy series is just not feasible. In an alternate universe, perhaps one just next door to ours, Amazon gave the green light to former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara’s adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower. ![]()
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