![]() ![]() He also implied that the “next” time around could be the quest that finally succeeds and breaks the looping cycle. ![]() Instead, he revealed that the stories’ events are cyclical and have happened many times before. Fans don’t know what the “ending” of Roland’s quest looks like because King, intentionally, never wrote one. (Spoilers follow for the Dark Tower book series.)Įven if all of the complicated plot and character arcs and narrative side-quests and ultimate battles could have fit into the film’s remarkably slight 95-minute timeframe, the fact is that the D ark Tower book cycle is essentially unfinished. 1) It’s best to think of The Dark Tower as a new Stephen King story rather than one we knowįor so, so many reasons, a reasonably faithful film version of all eight books of The Dark Tower was never going to happen. Here are four things you need to know to prepare for the journey. The Dark Tower may be a terrible, even baffling version of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, but it’s highly enjoyable as a cinematic King fanfic. Yet for all of this, Arcel’s film is fun, loving, scary, and often as genuinely compelling as it is wildly misguided. Except for the broadest central plot point - Roland pursues a man, played by Matthew McConaughey, who wants to destroy the Tower that keeps our universe and many others in balance - King’s ideas have been largely swept aside for a strange fusion of science fiction and Weird fiction disguised as a Young Adult fantasy. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markĮxcept for King’s main character, Idris Elba’s Roland the Gunslinger - who isn’t even the main character of this movie - the other film characters are all composites of multiple characters from the book series. ![]()
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