But the stripped-down (88 minutes without credits) movie that has emerged is devoid whatsoever of any personality or flavor. Abrams and Ron Howard both left, has said that this The Dark Tower is not so much a straight adaptation of the books but rather a sort of sequel: since the books end with Roland the gunslinger essentially starting the story over, the movie was meant in a way to be that new journey, similar to what came before but also open to variation (kind of like the recent Star Trek movies set in an alternate timeline). More than a decade in development, The Dark Tower is a disaster, a muddled, tedious shadow of what made the King saga great and an insult to the books themselves.ĭirector Nikolaj Arcel ( A Royal Affair), inheriting the job after J.J. The series is compelling, confounding and captivating, but this movie based on bits and pieces from the books is only the middle of those three. Stephen King’s eight-book magnum opus (which is how he described it) was a surreal, bizarre mash-up of horror, science fiction, dark fantasy and Western, with moments of existential weirdness (like when King made himself a character in the later books) unlike anything else in his vast bibliography. Adapting The Dark Tower to the big screen was never going to be an easy process.
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