[Joe 6-pack]

The tough thing about casting Roland is that you'd have to combine sort of the American, pioneer/wild west gunslinger, with a more chivalristic sort of knight errant.

While he may be a little old for the part now, Jeremy Irons nailed the archetype in "Kingdom of Heaven."

[discostu]

Other than the suntan I don’t think there’s much difference between a classic rough and tough good guy western movie gunslinger and a knight errant. Irons could probably pull it off, Tiberias in Kingdom of Heaven did have some world weary but still noble that I think is important for the Roland character.