First look at the Dark Tower cast in character

Cape Town – Since filming of the adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower began in Cape Town we've been trying to get a sneak peek.

Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey star as the gunslinger and the villainous man in black.

Entertainment Weekly snapped these exclusive images of the stars in character. 

The images also introduce us to Jake Chambers played by Tom Taylor.

Jake, a young boy from New York experiences visions and nightmares of the tower.

Check out the pictures here:

Part 1 of 5: Meet #TheDarkTower's Roland Deschain, a rough-riding knight who has lost his way, peers off into the horizon in search of the man who decimated his world – and is about to ruin many more. That’s the opening of both the film and Stephen King’s first book in the series, and here we see Idris Elba as this spiritual warrior, a gunslinging knight, who has the devil in his sights. The landscapes of South Africa stood in for Mid-World, a dimension ravaged by loss but still bewitching in its tragic beauty. ??: Ilze Kitshoff

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Part 3 of 5: Jake Chambers stands here one of #TheDarkTower's portals between worlds–a decrepit Brooklyn mansion known as Dutch Hill, which literally roars to life around any intruder who tries to pass through its gateway. Production designer Christopher Glass said he wanted to take the supernatural premise and add real physics to it. "We’re trying to have rules, basically, for the way the house becomes a monster," he says. "Wood shouldn’t suddenly become rubber. It should have particles and fibers and break. And when certain elements are not touching one another, things don’t levitate. Everything has to be touching for it to be alive. Otherwise it just falls, gravity takes over." ??: Ilze Kitshoff

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Part 4 of 5: It should be no surprise, but eventually #TheDarkTower's Jake comes face to face with the hero from all his visions and drawings. Roland is even more impressive in person. "He’s supernatural. He’s a knight of Mid-World. He has fast healing abilities. He’s not that easy to kill, and also, by the way, it’s very hard to get to him," says director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel. "He’s such a formidable fighter, gunslinger, and in battle it’s very hard to best the gunslinger." The Man in Black already knows Roland's one weakness, though–the people he cares about.??: Ilze Kitshoff

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Matthew McConaughey is ready to end worlds as the Man in Black in #TheDarkTower! ???? McConaughey talks with us on his villainous character, “You know, he’s not literally the Devil, but I sure as hell think about him like the Devil. I think like the Devil would.” ?? Click the link in our bio to read all about this epic, evil character! ??: Ilze Kitshoff

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