Dark Tower Villain Is The Devil - Matthew McConaughey

 

As the film version of The Dark Tower finally takes shape, we are beginning to get some interesting insights from the actors themselves. Earlier Idris Elba elucidated his feelings about the hero Roland; now Matthew McConaughey doing the same for his villainous character Walter, a.k.a The Man in Black.

He said “Well, he is a man, actually, they wanted to go very human and grounded with this. Obviously there are mythical proportions of good and evil in Walter. But we didn’t want to go overly fantastic. That would drop the humanity. So Walter, for me, is a man who exposes hypocrisies. You know, he’s not literally the Devil, but I sure as hell think about him like the Devil. I think like the Devil would.”

McConaughey’s character serves The Crimson King, an insane, god-like entity who will rule the chaos brought about by The Man in Black shattering the Dark Tower. But first Walter has to find Jake, a boy who has a power called “The Shine” that can be harnessed against the Dark Tower. McConaughey seems to delight in that aspect of the story as well:

While none of this is going to tell us a great deal about The Dark Tower‘s plot, it is heartening to note that McConaughey has such strong, complex feelings about the character he’s playing. Along with Elba’s equally incisive feelings about Roland, we can hope that this bodes well for the production. The Dark Tower comes to theaters on February 17, 2017.