I’m huge Stephen King fan. He calls us his “Constant Readers,” and I think that’s a fitting nickname, seeing how I’ve read all of his novels and short story collections. OK, I lied. I’ve read all but one novel, and that’s not from lack of trying, either. I ordered the book "Cycle of the Werewolf" off of Amazon and it never made its way to my house. That’s the only thing I’ve bought online that didn’t make its way to me. I’m not sure what the universe is trying to tell me, but, it’s just… I want that book.

Whenever I tell someone I’ve read the amount of King books I have, the same question always comes up after they cope with what I've told them: “What’s your favorite?”

Every time warrants a different answer. Gun to my head, a noose around my neck, knife to my throat, I still wouldn't be able to pick a favorite book. Just thinking about trying to choose is giving me anxiety.

While I can't pick one favorite book, I can say his “Dark Tower” series is by far the best series I’ve ever read. Better than the Harry Potter series and better than the “Song of Ice and Fire” series (I mean, the "Game of Thrones" books).

Either way, the eight books that make up “Dark Tower” as a whole were the greatest books I’ve ever read. I never truly cared about characters in a book like I did in those. I practically cried the whole time reading the last book of the series.

Stephen King is known as a prolific writer, with some of his books clocking in at over a thousand pages. “The Dark Tower” series was written over a 20-year span, with the last three coming out in 2003 and 2004.

I find this small detail funny, because Hollywood has been mulling over turning these epic books into movies for the past 10 years, causing another brutal waiting game for older fans. Hollywood has been jerking us fans around and getting our hopes up with details of rumored actors and rumored plans for a mini-series, just to spit in our faces by scrapping the plans.

I started to believe "The Dark Tower" getting turned into a movie was a pipe dream until last Monday, when Stephen King made it official by Tweeting that Idris Elba will play the protagonist Roland Deschain alongside Matthew McConaughey, who’ll play the antagonist, the Man in Black. The movie is due to come out in 2017.

I was on cloud nine when I read the news. I loved Elba in "Prometheus" and all of the Marvel movies, and I can’t wait to see him portray Roland. Whenever a loved book or book series is made into a movie, there's added pressure from the fans of the original product. The fans don’t want to see something they love and cherish get turned into some Hollywood soap opera, with unneeded explosions and added love interests for the sake of reviews.

So yes, fans don’t want the integrity of something they loved ruined, fine, completely understandable. You see that passion with the new Star Wars movies and whenever a new comic book adaption comes out. The biggest question is always who’ll be the actors that’ll portray these beloved ideals.

This sort of argument allows racists to mask themselves as super fans, and argue that if a character was imagined as a white person, then they should be played by a white actor. You saw this argument with Finn, the Stormtrooper who defected in the new "Star Wars," and in the newest Fantastic Four movie. where the originally white superhero, the Human Torch, was portrayed by Michael B. Jordan, an African American actor.

These people pretend they’re just trying to “stay true” to the original works. My response to that, though, is that these characters we love are products of another individual's imagination. They might be described as a certain race, but they’re supposed to represent more than just color. I look up to and identify with characters in books because they represent a certain moral standing I want to reach, not because they’re the same color as me.

The character Idris Elba is playing a character that represents the part of you that longs for the past and will do anything to hold onto it. That’s a feeling every human being can identify with, and if you can’t because Elba looks different than you, then go back to your cave; you’re not wanted in society.