#The dark tower series#
While “The Dark Tower” represents a low on the list of King adaptations, the author still has much to celebrate in 2017 and much to look forward to in the future, including the “It” sequel and the Hulu series “Castle Rock.” “So there was some of that problem, too.” “I thought to myself, ‘Well, people are going to be really puzzled by this,’ and they were,” King says of the script’s jumping off point. The author reveals that he expressed concerns with this choice to Columbia Pictures but that the studio heads had made up their minds and his notes didn’t get too far. The Gunslinger must prevent the Man in Black from toppling the Dark Tower. The last Gunslinger, Roland (Idris Elba), has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of worlds at stake, two men collide in the ultimate battle.
#The dark tower movie#
King also thinks “The Dark Tower” failed because the script decided to begin the movie “pretty much in the middle” of his book series. Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. According to King, “It became something where people went to it and said, ‘Well yeah, but it’s really not anything that we haven’t seen before.'” 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. New 'Shining' Movie Dead Due to 'Doctor Sleep' Bomb, Mike Flanagan Confirmsĭuffer Brothers Launch Upside Down Pictures, Set 'Stranger Things' Stage Playīy mandating the adaptation be PG-13, King feels the movie by default “lost a lot of the toughness” of his book. We want to make sure that we get people in there from the ages of, let’s say, 12 right on up to whatever the target age is. “The real problem, as far as I’m concerned is, they went in to this movie and I think this was a studio edict, pretty much, this is going to be a PG-13 movie,” King said. Although King was vocal about how much he liked the movie prior to the film’s release, he admits that the studio took the wrong approach in adapting “The Dark Tower” as a run-of-the-mill PG-13 blockbuster. One of the best books in the Dark Towers series. Their fathers, who are all gunslingers, send them on a mission undercover when they get into a little trouble. The author was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly and didn’t hold back when asked why the film didn’t attract many fans. Based on Wizard and Glass, the story tells how Roland and his friends became gunslingers. So what exactly went wrong? Stephen King has an idea. The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy novel by American author Stephen King.It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series.
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