Petition To Stop Idris Elba Being Mentioned On SKMB

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;-D I wasn't campaigning for it but Steve already said (when he told me where it would be filming) that he wouldn't be doing a set visit for this one. It would be an incredible opportunity, though. Hmmmm....maybe he'd like to send his PA there as his representative. :hmm:
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There's no one else he could trust more than you...well maybe other than Out of Order but we'll save that discussion for another thread! :wink2: Seriously though, this is one time I really need to question SK's sanity...he doesn't want to visit the set in SA?? Yes the journey is long but the resulting destination justifies that. I sincerely hope he changes his mind and takes you with him. :love:
 
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~Ally~ said:
There's no one else he could trust more than you...well maybe other than Out of Order but we'll save that discussion for another thread! :wink2: Seriously though, this is one time I really need to question SK's sanity...he doesn't want to visit the set in SA?? Yes the journey is long but the resulting destination justifies that. I sincerely hope he changes his mind and takes you with him. :love:
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It's a testament to just how much he dislikes traveling. :smile2:
 
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~Ally~ said:
There's no one else he could trust more than you...well maybe other than Out of Order but we'll save that discussion for another thread! :wink2: Seriously though, this is one time I really need to question SK's sanity...he doesn't want to visit the set in SA?? Yes the journey is long but the resulting destination justifies that. I sincerely hope he changes his mind and takes you with him. :love:
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I trust you know I hold the first part of this post in the highest regard......:applause:
 
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I tried to watch Under The Dome, I tried to like it, I WANTED to like it, but I couldn't, I watch the whole first season and ...nothing, I couldn't enjoy it, I'm sure if I hadn't read the book the TV would have been great, but it was not to be.

Recently; I decide that I would not watch the gunslinger movies/TV, I would'nt even bother with it. I knew I was gonna hate it, so I would just ignore it all together, (I currently take this attitude with the musical "Wicked")
I can not "get passed" the idea of a black-British-older-sexy Roland dude.
Now I'm not any kind of racist, not at all, I dont care one iota about any black-Jewish Homosexuals whatever. I dont care about transsexual-Zionist Jordanians-Vulcan-Bruce-Katlyn-whatcha ma'Jiggs ....I COULDN'T CARE LESS.
But Roland ...isn't black or British or 'too old' and he wasn't that "sexy" .Idris whatevername was a bad choice and moreover its just plain Fracken SILLY.

I knee jerk reaction was to ignore the whole thing.But I have changed my mind. I will watch it a Few times, or maybe for a whole TV season, as I did with UtD, and maybe I will like it, Him, the series/movies.

I have nothing to lose. -
but ...THEY BETTER get Drew Barrymore to play the roll of Alley from Tull !!!
 
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He mentions Clint Eastwood himself in the "On Being Nineteen" essay and elsewhere.
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He also talked about that in the EW interview for which you kindly provided a link :) Mr. King said that Roland started out in his mind looking like Clint Eastwood, largely because he loved spaghetti westerns, but by the time he'd gone through a couple of books Roland looked like no one but Roland--he'd taken on his own individual life and appearance.
 
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Me, too. If I had the funds and a little more time, I'd be traveling the world.
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Would you like me to start a petition for SK to send you to South Africa as his official representative? That could possibly give some fans hope this will be a DT adaptation in more than just name. :umm: Not me though, I am strictly anti-DT movie from now until forever. Idris Elba...meh! :facepalm_smiley:
 
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He also talked about that in the EW interview for which you kindly provided a link :) Mr. King said that Roland started out in his mind looking like Clint Eastwood, largely because he loved spaghetti westerns, but by the time he'd gone through a couple of books Roland looked like no one but Roland--he'd taken on his own individual life and appearance.
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That's where the "elsewhere" came in. I was trying to tie it into the books themselves, too, to perhaps explain why that image would be in the reader's mind for so long. :smile2:
 
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~Ally~ said:
Would you like me to start a petition for SK to send you to South Africa as his official representative? That could possibly give some fans hope this will be a DT adaptation in more than just name. :umm: Not me though, I am strictly anti-DT movie from now until forever. Idris Elba...meh! :facepalm_smiley:
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Much appreciated but would be as much an exercise in futility (on both counts probably) as the petition to not cast Idris Elba. :smile:
 
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Oh, okay. I have to reread. And I don't know whence my mind's eye of him looking like Clint Eastwood per spaghetti westerns, though I definitely know others have as well.
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My minds eye is heavily influenced by THE ILLUSTATIONS included in every book. Especially Michael Whelan's stuff. Kinda makes it cut and dry what the Gunslinger looks like.
 
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That's where the "elsewhere" came in. I was trying to tie it into the books themselves, too, to perhaps explain why that image would be in the reader's mind for so long. :smile2:
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The illustrations carry a lot of weight, too--you can't help but look at them :) All Mr. King specifically mentions is that Roland has black hair ("Like a raven's wing") and bright blue eyes. Each illustrator did different things, though. DoTT Roland looks like Michael Fassbender (even to a reddish beard stubble in one picture), while the Roland in the later books is more beefy and Josh Brolin-ish (with blue eyes). Meh. It really doesn't matter to me.
 
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My minds eye is heavily influenced by THE ILLUSTATIONS included in every book. Especially Michael Whelan's stuff. Kinda makes it cut and dry what the Gunslinger looks like.
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Great minds think alike--lol. Still, each illustrator had his (or her--no idea who did any of them) own ideas. The books themselves aren't that specific: dark hair, blue eyes, tall & lean, and Eddie refers to him as 'ugly'. Not so sure how seriously to take that, but I imagined a guy who looks like he's been rode hard and put away wet (as my mother would say :D).
 
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