Will Susannah cause controversy?

I will wait until i see how they portray Roland before i worry about how he interacts with Susannah.
His portrayal is mandatory to their relationship aswell. And i dont just mean his appearance

Dear lord, not another controversy!

I hope not, but let's be realistic about it. Once production for a sequel is underway, people will find controversy in anything. However, I hope the audience reaction would be relatively positive. It would require a very good actress (not necessarily a known actress, but one with talent nonetheless) to pull off the complexity, especially when you consider the three personalities she needs to believably pull off. If they could cast a talented actress there is no reason she would receive a negative reception. She's a very unique character, and I truly don't think people would consider a double amputee whose suffered abuse from racial discrimination and gone on psycho binges due to her schizophrenia a "Mary Sue."

Then again, I have a hard time believing half the things people find controversial, so what do I know?

I assume she would still be cast according to the books as each turn of the wheel only resets Roland. We know each turn is at least similar to the previous loops due to Roland's Déjà vu but he could be drawing Eddie and Odetta from 1 dimension over or 3 or 10 etc. It's impossible to speculate what Eddie and O/Detta we may get due to it not being an adaptation.

Detta's cliche'd 'shuck and jive' talk may not translate from book to film, i can see how it could come across as incredibly offensive actually for non readers, and i'm not sure making her even more of a caricature could make it any better. The humour element of her racist slurs in the books could be very tricky to work in. Should it be dead serious or darkly amusing? (If i had to choose, i would go with serious as we already have Eddie for *beep* and giggles).

Imo she will be by far the hardest character to write to film, more than Roland. I personally think a known and respected actress is almost a necessity, the writers/film makers will be swimming in shark infested waters with Detta and an actress that has already earned a good reputation could be a make or break manoeuvre. Viola Davis maybe? She's a very young looking 51.

They could cast her spot on, they won't and it won't even get a sequel to get that fair, they couldn't get the dynamic between Roland and Detta right because the idiotic casting of Elba has made that impossible. So her character could never be accurate to the book in anything but look.

I'm tossing the name Gugu Mbatha-Raw in as a possible Susannah because I love the hell out of her right now.