Benicio Del Toro, Hugh Jackman, Jackie earle haley, Vigo mortensen.

Jim Caviezel would be a great Roland! Looks fit the role, and he’s a great actor.

I agree as well. I always thought television acting was a step down as well, but it’s been really picking up quite well as of late.

I was thinking the same thing as OP of this small little thread, but Rodney’s response makes sense. However, ultimately I hope that everyone they get for the film stays for the television series as well. It may go unnoticed, but even different actors playing the same MINOR character can be distracting IMO.

I agree. Plenty of “movie stars” are now doing regular TV ssries. It’s not the step down that it used to be.

And not only that, but if it is the latter, this actor will be taking how much of this role in the movie and on TV onto his plate?

This actor’s time is going to be dedicated to this for about 4-5 years.

Unless they shoot this all at once, and then you are still talking about 2-3 years. So you are looking at a good actor who is out of work, or would be willing to do something like this for a decent price.

I could see:
One Actor (BB method)
Jim Caviezel as Roland

Two Actors:
Peter Weller – Old Roland
Viggo Mortensen – Old Roland

Tom Welling – Young Roland
Jensen Ackles – Young Roland

And finally, all in all, it’s going to be VERY difficult to generate drama in ant iteration of TDT because the antagonists don’t appear until very late in the books.

Or they get an unknown actor who deserves better and he does both.

I dont get the mentality that TV is a step “down”. Acting is acting.

Josh Brolin? Timothy Olyphant?