Roland, Roland Roland –?Keep Them Doggies’ Roland
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?Sorry for the bizarre and vague article title — I couldn’t help myself. Remember the massive Dark Tower movie/TV series project Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are working on? Well, there are rumors for who’s up to play Roland, and I figured you’d be interested even though there’s absolutely zero hard truth to any of it.The short list supposedly includes…
? Javier Bardem
? Viggo Mortensen
? Jon Hamm
? Daniel Craig
Apparently Bardem’s in the lead with Viggo a close second, mostly on the strength of Bardem being able to commit immediately to all the jillion years needed to make all the movies and shows. Bleeding Cool rightly points out that Hamm and Craig’s schedules are almost certainly too packed to be seriously considered. Personally, I doubt Viggo would want to commit to another massive, years-long project, but damn, don’t you think he’d be perfect? No offense to Bardem, who’s a marvelous actor, but I honestly can’t get the image of Viggo as Roland out of my head now.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.