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Based on Stephen King's novel series of the same name, the film stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger on a quest to protect the Dark Tower—a mythical structure which supports all realities—while Matthew McConaughey plays his nemesis Walter Padick (The Man in Black), and Tom Taylor stars as Jake Chambers, a boy who becomes Roland ...
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In Frank Darabont's 2007 film adaptation of King's novella...
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The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one novella, and...
- Nikolaj Arcel
Nikolaj Arcel (born 25 August 1972) is a Danish filmmaker...
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Idris Elba as Roland DeschainMatthew McConaughey as Walter "o'Dim" Padick, the Man in Black, Randall FlaggJackie Earle Haley as SayreTom Taylor as Jake ChambersThe Dark Towerbegan filming in South Africa in April 2016. The film also shot scenes in New York. In October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy. In response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.
Follow-Up television series
In September 2016, Entertainment Weekly reported that following the release of the film, a television series set within the same continuity is scheduled to be released in 2018. Both Elba and Taylor are set to reprise their roles as Roland and Jake, respectively. The series has been confirmed to fill in the backstory to the film, being based on King's Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole and with elements of The Gunslinger, starring younger actors playing young Roland and young Walte...
Sequel
In an interview with Collider, Stephen King expressed hope for a sequel to The Dark Tower in addition to the film's follow-up television series, stating that if a sequel is made, it would have an R-rating, would include Roland wearing a hat, and that the opening scene of The Drawing of the Three, in which Roland loses two of his fingers to "lobstrosities", would be adapted. In an interview with Coming Soon, Nikolaj Arcel confirmed that this scene would be adapted, that Eddie and Susannah Dean...
Walter Padick: You can't stop what's coming. Death always wins.Roland Deschain: I do not aim with my hand, he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I do not shoot with my hand, I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun... I kill wi...Roland Deschain: Do they have guns, and bullets in your World?Jake Chambers: You're gonna like Earth. A lot.A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Nikolaj Arcel
- 2017-08-04
The Gunslinger must prevent the Man in Black from toppling the Dark Tower, the key that holds the universe together. With the fate of worlds at stake, two men collide in the ultimate battle ...
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- Nikolaj Arcel
- PG-13
- Idris Elba
The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one novella, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical.
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, the ambitious story from one of the world’s most-celebrated authors, makes its long-awaited launch to the big screen, starring Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black.
Plot. Eleven-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions involving a mysterious warlock, the Man in Black, who seeks to destroy a Tower and bring ruin to the Universe while a Gunslinger opposes him.
