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- 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. Jake's visions are dismissed by his mother, stepfather and psychiatrists as nightmares resulting from the trauma of his father's death the previous year.
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Aug 7, 2017 · The Dark Tower opens with Jake having a nightmare. A group of children, living in some community clearly not on earth, are being used by the evil Man in Black ( Matthew McConaughey ) as...
- Chris Evangelista
I haven't heard many real complaints about the very end of the book (after he enters the tower). All of the complaints I have heard about how much the ending sucks is before that, and mainly how they present the villains.
But Arcel’s Dark Tower attempts to ease newcomers into its world through the point of view of Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), a young New Yorker haunted by nightmares about the magical Dark...
- The Movie Botched Its Portrayal of Roland
- The Dark Tower Was Far Too Short
- The Dark Tower's Story Wasn't Explored Properly
Casting Idris Elba as Roland Deschain was one of the decisions made in The Dark Tower that was a smart call. Indeed, Elba's portrayal of Roland was among the more commended aspects of the film. However, the movie itself gave him precious little to work with. The film is really less Roland's story than it is Jake's, and while that might've been inte...
There's a reason why so many Stephen King story adaptations have been adapted as TV mini-series: a King novel is never a short read. Even many Stephen King movies that have hit theaters push their runtimes well past the two-hour mark. The IT films are a prime example, first being adapted as a two-part TV mini-series in 1990 with a three-hour runtim...
Functioning as a sequel to the the book series meant The Dark Tower had to be the most audience-friendly story possible. However, the movie went too far in the direction of watering down the story to make it palatable to general audiences, and this arguably did more harm to the film than anything else. The Dark Tower movie adaptation tried to hook ...
- Contributor
Aug 4, 2017 · Roland, Walter, and eventually Jake cross between worlds through portals. It’s not long before Jake and Roland team up, but Jake questions whether or not his new gun-toting pal is going to help him save the tower or if he just wants vengeance against the man in black.
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 a...
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.
