Michael Rooker joins Amazon's quest for The Dark Tower

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According to Deadline, grizzled space pirate Michael Rooker has joined the cast of the pilot for Amazon’s The Dark Tower show, which is going to be a prequel to the main events of Stephen King’s book series and a “more faithful retelling” of the story than the awful 2017 movie adaptation. Rooker is reportedly playing “a main villain,” with Deadline theorizing that he’ll probably be rogue gunslinger Eldred Jonas, leader of a gang called the Big Coffin Hunters. Whoever he’s playing, though, Rooker is pretty much perfect for anyone in The Dark Tower’s post-apocalyptic fantasy/sci-fi/Western world, aside from the wizards and supremely evil horror kings that are running around.