Part IV of EW’s coverage of the six-guns and sorcery movie.
“A very special weapon.”
The gunslinger doesn’t think of them as toys.
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He draws them only when there’s no other choice.
“Hes not just a shoot em up bang out cowboy,” Elba says.
Production designer Christopher Glass said he wanted to take the supernatural premise and add real physics to it.
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“Wood shouldnt suddenly become rubber.
It should have particles and fibers and break.
And when certain elements are not touching one another, things dont levitate.
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Everything has to be touching for it to be alive.
Otherwise it just falls, gravity takes over.”
He intends to be well-dressed for the apocalypse.
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“The Devils a handsome man, McConaughey says.
Ive seen the pale Devil.”
He shakes his head.
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“No, no, no.
Ive seen the Nosferatic Devil – no.
I said, Black suit, black coat – lets lookreallysharp.
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Even his spiky hair seems design to impale.
Weve also got some Brian Grazer in there,” he says, referring toThe Dark Towerproducer.
“I said hair back, flames back, full face.
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I wanted to be completely exposed.”
Roland is even more impressive in person.
Hes a knight of Mid-World.
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He has fast healing abilities.
The Man in Black already knows Roland’s one weakness, though – the people he cares about .
“The single biggest structural conceit is Jake as the point of entry,” he says.
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“Doesnt every kid at one point think that the things in the shadows are real?
Doesnt every little boy imagine that there is a world that you cant quite see?”
“New York is literally like that.
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Director Nikolaj Arcel speaks with Tom Taylor and Idris Elba on the set.
“In the beginning of the story Roland is kind of a lost soul.
All hes thinking about is killing the Man in Black, his arch nemesis,” Arcel says.
“Hes all about revenge.
Hes all about trying to track down this man who has hurt him throughout his entire life.
Taken away his friends.
Taken away like his father, his mother.
The love of his life…
So this is where we find him.
Hes a man blinded by the longing for revenge.
Thats where Jake finds him.”
Maybe there’s a way the boy can pull Roland back from this precipice.
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