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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hamm-battles-action-heroes-for-role.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Jon Hamm is being considered for a role in The Dark Tower" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-hamm-battles-action-heroes-for-role.jpg" alt="Jon Hamm is being considered for a role in The Dark Tower"/></a></p>
<p>Jon Hamm is to battle it out against a string of action heroes to star in the adaptation The Dark Tower.</p>
<p>The Mad Men star has been named along with James Bond actor Daniel Craig, X-Men&#8217;s Hugh Jackman and The Lord of the Rings&#8217; Viggo Mortensen as being considered to play the lead role of The Gunslinger Roland of Gilead in Universal&#8217;s film trilogy and TV series based on Stephen King&#8217;s series of sci fi books.</p>
<p>Director Ron Howard confirmed in an interview with The Los Angeles Times: &#8220;Sure, those are some names and on The Dark Tower fansites they&#8217;re all about Viggo.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ron is directing the first film in the series from a script written by Akiva Goldsman.</p>
<p>Akiva wrote the screenplays for Batman And Robin, I, Robot, and I Am Legend and has also previously worked with Ron, writing the scripts for Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code and Angels And Demons, all directed by Ron.</p>
<p>Ron admits there is pressure in bringing King&#8217;s The Dark Tower series to the screen.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Filmically, there are tones in this that I have never used before, tones of fantasy menace and elements of horror and real fear.</p>
<p>&#8220;And there&#8217;s the burden, on the characters, of this journey that is really palpable. That&#8217;s what we need to get on the screen. I think there&#8217;s something about [the Frank Darabont films] Green Mile or a Shawshank Redemption, the complexity and the ballast of them, those are two [of the Stephen King adaptations] where you do get the horror and suspense that&#8217;s there on the page.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re charging ourselves with the responsibility of getting a real understanding of the material and utilising many of the best aspects of the books and graphic novels.&#8221;</p>
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