Tower-ing Presence

Javier Bardem is mucho in demand.

Ron Howard, in fact, would like the Biutiful Academy Award nominee (and new dad – congrats to ya and Penélope Cruz!) to play troubled hero Roland Deschain in his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower (Christian Bale reportedly is also being eyed for the role of the Gunslinger).

The horror-fantasy-western adaptation is planned as a big-screen trilogy along with a TV series. Im not sure if Bardem would star in everything that is in the works, but the first Dark Tower movie is currently scheduled for summer 2013.

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