Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Idris Elba, Tom Taylor, Matthew McConaughey
Release: August 4th, 2017
I will see this movie because Stephen King is my favorite author and I loved the Dark Tower series. I highly doubt that I’ll enjoy it though. First off, this is nothing like the books, which I know is something everyone screams when a novel they enjoyed gets adapted, but seriously, nothing like the books at all. Secondly, the story has been turned into some Hollywood version that resembles a standard fantasy plot instead of the off-kilter fantasy/western/horror epic that makes Dark Tower great. I don’t know why someone decided to butcher King’s opus up this much or why he allowed it, but I have to imagine that money was involved. So, like I said, I will watch this movie, I will try my best to be entertained by what it IS rather than what it is NOT, but I’m not optimistic.