Warner Bros. is looking at it, and it seems like the TV portion of the series might end up on HBO, a FAR better prospect than NBC as it was gonna be as of last year till the deal fell through. I am cautiously optimistic, some of the books in that series are in my top 20 favorite books. I have been hearing about a movie translation forever, but Ron Howard seems to really want to do it.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/stephen-kings-the-dark-tower-wjavier-bardem/ (http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/stephen-kings-the-dark-tower-wjavier-bardem/)
Looks like Worf from "A Fistful of Datas."
Sounds awesome to me! Michael Dorn would be an... interesting choice to portray Roland!