The Dark Tower (2017)

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Ο Τζέικ Τσέιμπερς είναι ένας 11χρονος λάτρης της περιπέτειας που ανακαλύπτει στοιχεία για την ύπαρξη μιας άλλης διάστασης, ονομαστής ως Μέσος Κόσμος. Ακολουθώντας το μυστήριο, βρίσκεται στον Μέσο Κόσμο όπου έρχεται σε επαφή με έναν ιππότη ακρίτα, τον Ρόλαντ Ντεσέιν, που βρίσκεται στην αναζήτηση του Σκοτεινού Πύργου. Αυτός ο πύργος βρίσκεται στον Έσχατο Κόσμο και φτάνει ως τον συνδετικό κρίκο μεταξύ χρόνου και χώρου, κάτι που κάνει τον ιππότη να ελπίζει ότι εκεί θα σώσει τον Μέσο Κόσμο από τον αφανισμό. Αλλά με διάφορα τέρατα και έναν βάναυσο μάγο στο κατόπι τους, το ασύνδετο αυτό δίδυμο ανακαλύπτει γρήγορα ότι η αποστολή τους είναι πιο δύσκολη να πραγματοποιηθεί από αυτό που ήθελαν να πιστεύουν.




Release Date: August 4, 2017

Stephen King’s "The Dark Tower" is the most ambitious and expansive story from one of the world’s most celebrated authors. Now the story comes to the big screen starring Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as Walter O’Dim. The film is being directed by Nikolaj Arcel ("A Royal Affair").

Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kiim, Fran Kranz, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Mark Verheiden, Nikolaj Arcel
Genre: Action, Adventure

Official Website: http://www.thedarktower-movie.com / https://www.facebook.com/TheDarkTower

 

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Abbey Lee takes Tirana role in The Dark Tower

After several false stars, it looks like a big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower series is finally becoming a reality. There’s some new casting on the project today, courtesy of Deadline, which reports that Mad Max: Fury Road star Abbey Lee has entered talks to play the role of Tirana opposite Idris Elba as Roland Deschain (The Gunslinger) and Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flag (The Man in Black).

Although the outlet notes that Tirana is the film’s female lead, the news may come as a surprise to fans of the books. The only Tirana that appears in the series of novels plays a relatively small role in the series’ seventh book.

 

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Stephen King and Nikolaj Arcel talk The Dark Tower movie, confirm Idris Elba’s casting

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So began the first entry in The Dark Tower novel series, The Gunslinger, but the journey for Stephen King’s famous book series to the big screen has been just as long and harrowing as Roland’s journey to the Dark Tower. Now it’s finally happening.

Both King and the film’s director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel spoke with EW about the film, which Arcel revealed will begin shooting in South Africa in just seven weeks, and confirmed that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will star as the film’s hero and villain.

“What Stephen King does best is mixing the everyday, or what you might call the mundane, with the fantastical,” says Arcel. “In my view, [The Dark Tower] novels are a mix between sci-fi and fantasy and modern times. That exact mix is so Stephen King.”

King went on to reveal that the Dark Tower movie will open with the first line from the book as read above, but that the film itself will jump into the middle of the story instead of starting with the first book.

“[The movie] starts in media res, in the middle of the story instead of at the beginning,” King says. “Which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they’ll get behind it, because it is the story.”

Arcel went on to tease the film further, saying: “A lot of it takes place in our day, in the modern world.”

This could mean that the film will be adapting The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, the novel that sees Roland and his ka-tet members Eddie and Susannah attempting to bring a young boy, Jake, to their world from New York City.

Arcel went on to talk about casting Idris Elba in the role, saying:

“For me, it just clicked. He’s such a formidable man,” says Arcel. “I had to go to Idris and tell him my vision for the entire journey with Roland and the ka-tet. We discussed, who is this character? What’s he about? What’s his quest? What’s his psychology? We tried to figure out if we saw the same guy. And we absolutely had all the same ideas and thoughts. He had a unique vision for who Roland would be.”

On the flip side, Arcel says the casting of Matthew McConaughey made just as much sense.

“Matthew is an incredible actor who can do anything. That’s how I feel about Walter Padick. He could do anything…He is this timeless sorcerer, and being a Stephen King fan, I’ve read and experienced Walter in various iterations. He has a very interesting way of seeing the world. He sees it with a sort of delight, even though he is obviously on the wrong side of the light-and-dark spectrum. He’s someone I’ve been having a lot of fun with.”

Sony currently has The Dark Tower set for a release on January 13, 2017. Expect even more announcements from Mid-World in the coming weeks.

 

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Tom Taylor takes Jake Chambers role in The Dark Tower

The big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower series continues to move forward today as Variety brings word that the project has cast relative newcomer Tom Taylor in the Jake Chambers role. Tom Taylor previously starred on the BBC One series Doctor Foster and appeared in two episodes of TNT‘s Legends, playing a younger version of Sean Bean’s character.

 

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Jackie Earle Haley joins The Dark Tower

Deadline is reporting that Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children, RoboCop) has joined the cast of Sony’s adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower, which just began filming this week! He will play vampire leader Sayre, a humanoid who fears no one.

 

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Fran Kranz joins The Dark Tower

Fran Kranz is going from The Cabin in the Woods to The Dark Tower. The Dollhouse star has signed on to play a character by the name of Pimli in Sony Pictures‘ now-filming Stephen King adaptation. This is likely to be a variation on the book’s Pimli Prentiss, although the movie’s version is described by The Hollywood Reporter as being “the right hand man of the Man in Black.”

 

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Katheryn Winnick heads to The Dark Tower

Katheryn Winnick is the latest name to join the cast of Sony Pictures‘ now-filming Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower. According to Variety, the Vikings star will take a mystery role opposite Idris Elba as Roland Deschain (The Gunslinger), Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flagg (The Man in Black), Abbey Lee as the film’s female lead, Tirana, Tom Taylor as young Jake Chambers and Fran Kranz as Pimli, the right hand man of Flagg.

 

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The Dark Tower set photos with Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flagg

Production continues on the highly-anticipated feature film of The Dark Tower. Though principal photography was primarily taking place in South Africa, cameras are briefly rolling in New York City and the sequence being filmed features none other than Matthew McConaughey as the chief villain, Randall Flagg. You can check out the photos of McConaughey in costume below!

 

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Idris Elba is The Gunslinger on The Dark Tower set

Last Thursday, we got our first look at Matthew McConaughey as villain Randall Flagg in the anticipated adaptation of The Dark Tower, and now new photos of Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, aka The Gunslinger, on the New York set have also surfaced. You can view a photo from producer Ron Howard above and you’ll find even more photos below.

 

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Elba and McConaughey talk The Dark Tower characters

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Thus began the first Dark Tower novel by Stephen King in 1982, and so too will begin the feature film adaptation when it hits theaters next year.

Entertainment Weekly has revealed the cover for their latest issue and it features none other than the stars of the film, Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as The Gunslinger and the man in black (aka Walter o’Dim, aka Randall Flagg). Journey below to see the all-new photos from the film and to hear what the pair have to say about the movie.

“There’s a mystical element to him,” Elba tells the outlet. “He’s about 200 years old. He’s been around for a long time, and has a deep-rooted connection with the [supernatural] nature of the film. Roland’s completely tuned into that. When you meet him, he’s very much a stoic man, doesn’t want to talk. But when you get to know him, he really knows quite a bit about the world and his world’s history…When we meet Roland he’s a bit lost. He’s been walking around for a long time, so he definitely feels like a man who’s… coiled….Until he meets Jake.”

Jake Chambers, played by Tom Taylor in the film, is an important character in the mythology of The Dark Tower and the focal point of both Roland and the man in black’s plans in the feature film.

“He’s really pent up and releases his soul through [defending] the boy,” Elba added.

Jake lives in our reality (as opposed to the apocalyptic Mid-World that Roland hails from) and has the ability to “Shine,” something Stephen King fans should recognize immediately as the power Danny Torrance has in The Shining.

This power is why both Roland and Walter want Jake. Walter needs him to bring the titular tower crashing down (opening up a whole other can of worms for the entire multiverse) and Roland needs the tower preserved for his own journey.

One of the places we see McConaughey’s man in black wandering in the photos is The Dixie Pig, a hideaway for ne’er-do-wells and monsters of all kinds in our own world which also has a door to Mid-World.

“Well, he is a man, actually,” McConaughey says of the villain. “They wanted to go very human and grounded with this. Obviously there are mythical proportions of good and evil in Walter. But we didn’t want to go overly fantastic. That would drop the humanity. So Walter, for me, is a man who exposes hypocrisies.”

EW goes on to reveal how involved creator Stephen King has been in developing the film, with the man himself saying he made his own modifications to the script.

“I took a pen and cut Roland’s dialogue to the bone,” the author tells them. “The less he says the better off, and why not? Idris Elba can act with his face. He’s terrific at it. He projects that sense of combined menace and security. [Roland] is the Western hero, the strong, silent type: ‘Yep,’ ‘Nope,’ and ‘Draw.’”

Fans of The Dark Tower books have no doubt noticed that the film is missing two of its key characters in Eddie and Susannah Dean, and EW reveals they won’t be making the journey in the first film; however, should The Dark Tower be a success and a sequel follows, they will join the Ka-tet.

Director Nikolaj Arcel also confirmed what many had theorized about the film, that it’s actually a sequel to the book series and not a straight adaptation.

“The hardcore fans of The Dark Tower series will know that this is actually a sequel to the books in a way,” Arcel says. “It has a lot of the same elements, a lot of the same characters, but it is a different journey.”

 

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New Dark Tower photos released featuring Idris Elba

Sony Pictures (via EW) has released even more official The Dark Tower photos, many of which show off Idris Elba’s Gunslinger and Tom Taylor’s Jake traveling through both Mid-World and on Earth! Check them out below.

 

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The Dark Tower poster surfaces

While we still await the first trailer, the first poster for Columbia Pictures and MRC’s The Dark Tower has surfaced! You can take a look at the poster of The Dark Tower below!

 

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The Dark Tower posters featuring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey

Columbia Pictures and MRC have released two The Dark Tower posters! You can view them below.

 

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The Dark Tower trailer is here!

The first trailer for Columbia Pictures and MRC’s The Dark Tower has finally arrived and you can check it out in the player below! Let us know what you think of The Dark Tower trailer in the comments.




Το official trailer:

 

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Go then, there are other Dark Tower posters than these

The Dark Tower stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are having yet another palaver on Twitter and the pair have revealed two more character posters for the upcoming adaptation. Check them out below!

 

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New international The Dark Tower poster

A new international poster for Sony Pictures‘ The Dark Tower has come online and can be viewed below.