'The Dark Tower' trivia and fun facts

Based on Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' series of novels, which was inspired in part by Robert Browning's poem 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Possible Eddie Dean

Aaron Paul has been rumored as a possible Eddie Dean.

Walter O'Dim who held the alias of Randall Flagg, was also the antagonist in the novel 'The Eyes Of The Dragon' and 'The Stand' by Stephen King.

When Abbey Lee entered talks to appear as the female lead of Tirana, it caused some confusion among fans of the book series, as the character was originally written as a minor villain with little influence on the plot and does not appear until the final book in the series.

Daniel Craig, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen and Javier Bardem were considered for the lead role before Idris Elba was cast.

The original Dark Tower book series was seven novels.