"The Dark Tower" is the highly anticipated adaptation of
Stephen King's
famous novel series of the same name. Directed by
Nikolaj Arcel (writer of the Swedish thriller
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"), the film is a sequel to the events of the books, but more specifically
"The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower", and designed to act as a launching pad for a film and television franchise. The TV series has already secured
Glen Mazzara (
"The Walking Dead") as showrunner.
Throughout the years, between 2007 and 2015 to be exact, the film has undergone several phases of pre-production with
J.J. Abrams and
Ron Howard attached to direct. Howard eventually stayed on as a producer.
The film tells the story of the last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain (
Idris Elba), who has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black (
Matthew McConaughey). O'Dim seeks to destroy the Dark Tower, the only thing holding the universe together, a universe that consists of many other worlds.
The cast also includes
Tom Taylor, Katheryn Winnick, Abbey Lee, Claudia Kim and
Fran Kranz.
"The Dark Tower" opened in theaters on August 4th, 2017. It received an overwhelmingly negative response from critics, who praised Elba and McConaughey's performances, but found the film too incomprehensible, unfaithful to the source material and poorly put together. At the box-office, the film opened with $7.7 million on Friday, and looks to finish the weekend with around $19 million, not a joyful prospect against its $60 million budget.
Find out more about the movie after the jump.
