Evil to the core, Marten takes great delight in goading the young Gunslinger, even pushing him to take his gunslinger trials at a much younger age than he should have, thereby ensuring that he gets Roland's mother to himself.

Fans of the novels will recall that in Roland's younger years, the Man in Black was known as Marten Broadcloak, an adviser to Roland's father and also the man who seduced his mother. The Dark Tower TV show storyline will give way to a new actor being introduced as the younger Roland, while Elba plays the elder, and also for the Man in Black to take on a different appearance (also helpful if McConaughey doesn't sign on for any reason). For reference, and to celebrate King's 69th birthday, a map of Mejis has been released, see below. Roland tells the group about his experience with a thinny in his younger years, which then works into a tale of being sent by his father on a mission to the Barony of Mejis, a kingdom which exists in the same dimension as his homeland of Gilead. The framework for the series will be Roland has set up camp, with Jake and his other allies from previous books, near a 'thinny' a place where reality has eroded and people can be sucked into its vortex, like a black hole. While that may seem a strange choice, Wizard and Glass is a book that is really a prequel to the previous three novels, since most of it tells a story from Roland's past. However, the series will focus on one book specifically, Wizard and Glass, which is the fourth novel in the saga. Onto the plot, then, and the series will essentially tell of the origins of Roland's story, which is often referred back to in the Dark Tower books, especially in The Gunslinger, which is the first book.

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