After years of patiently sitting through endless rumours, hopes and disappointments, the possibility that The Dark Tower series will finally be adapted for the big screen appears closer to being realised than we ever dreamed.

With Ron Howard seemingly poised to take up the mantle, now is perhaps the best time to have a think about the things we’d like to see in a film adaptation of this epic series…

Inevitably, we talk about some bits of plot of The Dark Tower in this piece. If you want to be entirely spoiler-free, you might want to give this one a miss. Specifically, we talk about the ending in the last entry in this list…

The right man for the job