The Dark Tower - Books. The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid- World’s last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid- World’s post- apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End- World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time- space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it. In Roland’s where and when, the world has already begun to move on.

Time and direction are in drift, and the fabric of reality is fraying. However, things are about to get much worse.

The six invisible magnetic Beams, which maintain the alignment of time, space, size, and dimension, are weakening. Because of this, the Tower itself is foundering. Unless Roland can find a way to save the Beams and stabilize the Tower, all of reality will blink out of existence. Inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.

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Idris Elba Talks James Bond Rumors, 'The Dark Tower' Movie and 'The Wire'It's a Saturday afternoon in late spring, and the Farmers' Market in London's Notting Hill neighborhood is bustling: People mill about the tents and tables, blissfully shopping for organically grown tomatoes, raw milk, and little gem lettuce. A white Range Rover pulls up and Idris Elba steps onto the sidewalk. He is dressed in black, from his loafers to the oversized beanie cocked atop his head, and from the looks of it—eyes lowered, hands in pockets—he is doing his best to go unnoticed. Not gonna happen. As he heads for a nearby restaurant called Electric House, the market comes to a halt. All eyes are on him. Okay, so maybe the market doesn't come to a complete standstill and perhaps not everyone turns his way, but close to it.

Honey, honey, look . If this were a market in Topeka—or, heaven help him, Baltimore—the forty- four- year- old Elba would most likely be recognized as Stringer Bell, the Machiavellian heroin dealer he played on the HBO series The Wire. In the UK, where he was raised, he's better known as the Golden Globe- winning star of Luther, the BBC series on which he plays a gifted detective with a disastrous personal life. Today, however, he's called out for a role he's never had and may never play: Just as Elba ducks into the restaurant, an enthusiastic fan cups his hands around his mouth and shouts, . In 2. 01. 4, in one of the thousands of emails made public when Sony Pictures was hacked, then- studio cochair Amy Pascal told a colleague, . Watch New Jason Bourne (2016) Online on this page. Elba has long maintained that the conversation is moot; no one, so far as he knows, is seriously considering him for the role.

Nevertheless, the rumor's persistence highlights a large part of what makes Elba such a rare talent. Why did Pascal intuit that he had the qualities required to play a continent- hopping man of mystery?

For the same reason each one of his hypermasculine characters is so memorable: The guy has an invaluable Something Else, a swagger and self- confidence that he brings to every scene even before he utters a line. Hany Abu- Assad, who directed Elba and Kate Winslet in The Mountain Between Us, a plane- crash- survival movie out this October, says that . This is a man you can count on. This is a man who can handle anything. They can't act smart, they can't act being funny, they can't act like they have gravitas.. Idris brings all those things. Plus, he can act.

Plus, he can act. As the host leads us to a table in back, many patrons, from the well- heeled hipsters to the casually dapper young parents with their more- dapper children, get wide- eyed and whisper in our direction. Elba fixes his gaze forward, outwardly unaffected by the attention. He slides into a U- shaped booth that seems large until his wide frame occupies it. This month, Elba stars in The Dark Tower, a sci- fi thriller based on the Stephen King series that is set in a part- Blade Runner, part- spaghetti- western multiverse. He plays the Gunslinger, the solitary hero who survives through his superior instincts and weaponry skills. Nikolaj Arcel, the director of the movie, says that talking to Elba is like .

Robe by Paul Stuart; shirt and trousers by Louis Vuitton; sandals by Havaianas. Victor Demarchelier. Almost immediately, Elba is the one doing the interviewing.

He continues: ? What is that approach? Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Fair question, but let's give it a shot.

One approach, at least the one to understanding how Elba came to be one of Hollywood's most compelling leading men, begins with his father, Winston. Between bites of steak, flame- licked to well- done, he tells me about some advice Winston once gave him. Don't look away. Two reasons: You can tell whether they are lying. Also, so that they can see whatever you're saying you mean and you can connect to that person.' That's great advice for a young actor. Whereas many of his friends ended up on the dole or dealing drugs, Elba, an only child, devoted his energy to music. As a little kid, he'd turn cereal boxes into make- believe turntables.

At fourteen, he worked part- time with an uncle who had a DJ business and was soon spinning at gigs of his own. At eighteen, Elba attended the National Youth Music Theatre, a prestigious school for the arts. Winston, who worked at a Ford plant, ponied up the money for the tuition not covered by a grant. Though music was Elba's first creative passion, his drama classes captivated him more. After he finished the program, he got a job at the auto plant, working the night shift in order to make auditions during the day.

He nabbed bit parts on BBC series including Crimewatch, playing characters too small to have proper names—Drug Dealer, Delivery Man—and appeared as a gigolo on Absolutely Fabulous. It was his parents' pilgrimage to London that inspired Elba to try his luck in New York. That came from my dad. He made a journey. Elba says he spent hours hanging out at a Brooklyn barbershop to work on his American accent. He landed one- off roles here and there, including a small part on Law & Order, but those didn't provide enough to live on. He picked up DJ gigs, worked as a doorman at the renowned comedy club Carolines, and sold weed.

If he heard of an audition back in London that seemed like it was worth the flight, he'd go. Elba's peripatetic lifestyle put a strain on his marriage. He and Norgaard broke up before she gave birth to their daughter, now fifteen.

He'd been living out of a Chevy Astro van on the streets for three months when he went to audition for a part on a new HBO series called The Wire. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Coat, shirt, and trousers by Burberry.

Victor Demarchelier. The role that changed his life, as Elba puts it, came as a consolation prize.

He badly wanted to play drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. David Simon, the show's creator, was on the casting team; he tells me he had no idea Elba was from London because the actor never broke his American accent throughout the audition process. After several callbacks, the Wire team informed Elba that they wanted him not for Barksdale but for Stringer Bell. It was suits and smiles.

I said, 'That's how I'm going to make Stringer.' . Elba was stunned. As a rule, Simon would give scripts to the actors shortly before filming.

He didn't want them to know when their characters were being killed off until the last minute. They'll drink their last cup of coffee like they know it's their last cup of coffee. That whole flashy thing—no, mate. It was suits and smiles. As they walked among the headstones, Simon assured Elba that Bell wasn't being killed off because of anything the actor had done wrong. Simon recalls saying, . It's going to be a remarkable moment for you, Idris.

After people see this, you're going to have film roles coming at you to pick and choose. For several years, Elba found himself in a run of mostly forgettable movies and television series, including Girlfriends, Sometimes in April, Jonny Zero, Daddy's Little Girls, and Obsessed. Coat, T- shirt, and trousers by Raf Simons; shoes by O'Keeffe. Victor Demarchelier. A seven- episode role on NBC's The Office, in 2. Elba played the calculating nemesis of Steve Carell's Michael Scott.

His comedic turn brought him to the attention of Sorkin and others, which led to offers on a wider range of projects. He landed the lead on Luther, which became a smash hit in the UK, and costarred in a series of Hollywood action flicks, including Prometheus and Pacific Rim. In 2. 01. 3, he played the title character in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Though Winston was pleased that his son had found work doing what he loved, he was never much impressed by Elba's turns in Luther and the others. But the day Elba told his dad he'd be playing Nelson Mandela, Winston wept. After Elba showed him the film, in 2. Winston said that his son's depiction of Mandela reminded him of his own father, Moses.