The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

2017 American fantasy western film
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The Dark Tower is a 2017 American neo-Western science fantasy film directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel. Loosely 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's apprentice.

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95 minutes
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United States
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English
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$66 million
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$113.2 million

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Man in Black: (repeated line to his victims) Stop breathing.
  • At the end of the movie the Globe theater marquis reads spaghetti week at the majestic, this is a reference to the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns that Stephen King drew inspiration from while writing the book series.
  • Throughout the movie, Jake is said to have the 'Shine'. Near the end of the movie, Jake uses the 'Shine' and telepathically talks to Roland to encourage him to keep fighting. In both the book and the movie "The Shining", also by Stephen King, characters Danny and Hallorann are able to communicate telepathically, an ability called the 'Shine'.
  • The original Dark Tower book series was 8 novels.
  • Idris Elba appeared the previous year in Star Trek: Beyond (2016) opposite the late Anton Yelchin. Yelchin had appeared in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), which was also based on a Stephen King novel with connections to the Dark Tower series: Anthony Hopkins's character appears in the final novel of the series, and notes that Jake Chambers could easily have been a "twinner" for Bobby Garfield. Elba also appeared opposite Hopkins in Thor (2011).
  • The official poster of the movie features Gunslinger and Jake Chambers on foot of the image, on an upside-down New York, with the Man in Black walking by an equally upside-down street at the head of the image. This upside-down and white New York's skyline foreshadows the appearance of the Dark Tower.

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