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2 days ago · The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. 1982 A revised edition was published in 2003 The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three. 1987 The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. 1991 The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. 1997 The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla. 2003 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah. 2004 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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The second arc in the series, The Long Road Home, began publication on March 5, 2008. A hardcover volume containing all five issues was released on October 15, 2008. The third arc, The Dark Tower: Treachery, began publication on September 10, 2008.
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Dark Tower is a 1981 electronic board game, by Milton Bradley Company, for one to four players. The object of the game is to amass an army, collect the three keys to the Tower, and defeat the evil within. The game came out during the height of the role-playing game craze in the early 1980s.
- ROBERT BROWNING’S POETRY INSPIRED THE SERIES. The first volume of the Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger, drew inspiration from Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” and King even borrowed the name for his heroic gunslinger Roland Deschain.
- AN ODD REAM OF PAPER HELPED, TOO. In an afterward to The Gunslinger, King wrote that, “The Dark Tower began, I think, because I inherited a ream of paper in the spring semester of my senior year of college … The ream of paper I inherited was bright green, nearly as thick as cardboard, and of an extremely eccentric size—about 7 inches wide by 10 inches long, as I recall.”
- T.S. ELIOT'S WORK ALSO MAKES AN APPEARANCE. Browning isn’t the only famous poet who influenced King. The series’ third installment, The Waste Lands, nearly duplicates the title of T.S.
- THE SERIES WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT. The Gunslinger came out in a limited hardcover edition in 1982, but the first mass-market edition didn’t drop until 1988.
The Dark Tower premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on July 31, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on August 4, 2017.
Nov 1, 2016 · Set to be released on February 17, 2016, The Dark Tower movie (if well-received) will form the cornerstone in what has the potential to become a lavish tapestry of movies, tied into a TV series, tied into books, tied into comics…and on it goes. However, for those not familiar with King’s work, The Dark Tower can sound rather confusing.
Jul 30, 2017 · While it’s unclear just how this factors into the film, several scenes appear to include the Beams emanating out from the tower. The Dark Tower will be released on Aug. 4.
