{"id":91957,"date":"2016-05-10T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91957"},"modified":"2016-05-10T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:32:07","slug":"dark-tower-movie-begins-filming-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91957-dark-tower-movie-begins-filming-in-cape-town","title":{"rendered":"Dark Tower movie begins filming in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie based on Stephen King&#8217;s The Dark Tower has begun filming in Cape Town,\u00a0confirms <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/Movies\/News\/hollywood-flick-kicks-off-filming-in-sa-20160510\" target=\"_blank\">Channel24.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This follows confirmation by actress Katheryn Winnick who posted images of her trailer on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known what role Winnick will play in the movie (although fans of the books may guess quite easily), but the two most important characters have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Idris Elba has been cast to play The Gunslinger while Matthew McConaughey will be playing the villainous Man in Black.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BE_SuhuGKEA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting underway for #DarkTower. Shhh..character still under wraps ?#StephenKing #IdrisElba #matthewmcconaughey #CapeTown #SouthAfrica<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Katheryn Winnick (@katherynwinnick) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-05-04T14:37:37+00:00\">May 4, 2016 at 7:37am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91845-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to squeeze more power out of your gaming PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/91401-how-to-squeeze-more-power-out-of-your-gaming-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to squeeze more power out of your gaming PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best broadband service in South Africa for gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/91397-best-broadband-service-in-south-africa-for-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best broadband service in South Africa for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie based on Stephen King&#8217;s The Dark Tower has begun filming in Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":91959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,1147,18619,279,16915,18617],"class_list":["post-91957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-cape-town","tag-idris-elba","tag-movie","tag-shooting","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92003,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957\/revisions\/92003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}