Dumbing down story complexities isn’t always the best idea… especially with your target audience in mind.
Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) has been having nightmares since the death of his father… but he knows they’re not nightmares. No one believes in what he sees when he shows others the drawings he makes of Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), a gunslinger tasked to destroy Walter O’Dim (Matthew McConaughey), a sorcerer some call the Man in Black. Jake also sees what Walter is doing: strapping kidnapped children into a great machine, using their minds to attack a massive structure at the center of their world… and of all worlds. As Jake fails to convince people the escalating earthquakes in NYC are the results of these otherworldly attacks, he escapes the clutches of Walter’s skin-wearing minions through a portal into his nightmare world…
Fans of writer Stephen King know the words: “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Similar to The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, the massive saga linking parts of every story King has ever told has spanned eight books and was considered unfilmable. A reportedly troubled production from the first day of shooting, starring a presumed perfect cast for the leads but only rating an August release, Sony studios didn’t seem entirely sold on the prospects for the finished film… waiting until just before release before giving critics and audiences their first taste. Supposedly not a rehash but explained as companion sequel following King’s books, can The Dark Tower stand tall or will it come crashing to the ground?
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