The Dark Tower series filmed adaptation

[webstar1000]

I wonder if they are stuck between making a good trailer and getting people interested and not giving away all the good parts of the movie before it's released. Or is that maybe wishful thinking?

? I thought the trailer was fantastic!! You didn't?


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[wolfehr]

I've personally loved the trailers and am stoked for the movie.

38 more days!!!


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[Iwritecode]

I wonder if they are stuck between making a good trailer and getting people interested and not giving away all the good parts of the movie before it's released. Or is that maybe wishful thinking?

? I thought the trailer was fantastic!! You didn't?

I was responding to the article that said it was dull. But I guess he was talking about the featurette rather than the trailer. Although they both used a lot of the same footage.

Personally? Yes, I really liked the trailer. But I haven't heard much buzz about this movie so I'm not sure how well it's reaching non DT fans.

[webstar1000]

I wonder if they are stuck between making a good trailer and getting people interested and not giving away all the good parts of the movie before it's released. Or is that maybe wishful thinking?

? I thought the trailer was fantastic!! You didn't?

I was responding to the article that said it was dull. But I guess he was talking about the featurette rather than the trailer. Although they both used a lot of the same footage.

Personally? Yes, I really liked the trailer. But I haven't heard much buzz about this movie so I'm not sure how well it's reaching non DT fans.

ahhh. I see what your saying

[fernandito]

I fucking love that shot of Roland and Jake @ 0:25 aiming their guns at the unseen threat.

That is Jake? I perceived the other shooter to be Steven Deschain.

Jake for me too.

Actually, taking a look at it again I think Dyson is correct. He's wearing the same attire as in the previous shot, and the surroundings look exactly like the previous shot.

[Isamu Dyson]

I fucking love that shot of Roland and Jake @ 0:25 aiming their guns at the unseen threat.

That is Jake? I perceived the other shooter to be Steven Deschain.

Jake for me too.

Actually, taking a look at it again I think Dyson is correct. He's wearing the same attire as in the previous shot, and the surroundings look exactly like the previous shot.

Remember in The Drawing of the Three when Steven is cautioning his son to not place too much - okay, ANY - emotional investment into Eddie? This very well may be one of Roland's "inner mentor" moments represented with a fully visualized conversation rather than a purely mental dialogue.

[WeDealInLead]

I saw the poster at the local theater. Can't believe this is happening.

[Bev Vincent]

Saw the trailers for IT and THE DARK TOWER before BABY DRIVER yesterday.

[georgiesarm]

Saw the trailers for IT and THE DARK TOWER before BABY DRIVER yesterday.

Nice crowd reactions?

[fernandito]

Saw the trailers for IT and THE DARK TOWER before BABY DRIVER yesterday.

Me too! Was ecstatic to see it, even though I've already seen it on Youtube 100 times

[wolfehr]

Saw the trailers for IT and THE DARK TOWER before BABY DRIVER yesterday.

I'm seeing Baby Driver this afternoon!!


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[Argie]

I dont think its Jake. The other gunslinger has two big irons just like Roland. Where would Jake get them? I think its a flashback scene, maybe Cuthbert? Alain?

[fernandito]

I dont think its Jake. The other gunslinger has two big irons just like Roland. Where would Jake get them? I think its a flashback scene, maybe Cuthbert? Alain?

It's Steven.

[Argie]

And shouldn't we be getting a second trailer right about now? 3-4 weeks before opening day?

[wolfehr]

Saw the trailers for IT and THE DARK TOWER before BABY DRIVER yesterday.

I'm seeing Baby Driver this afternoon!!


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The Dark Tower trailer aired before the movie, but no IT.


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[Isamu Dyson]

My new favorite complaint about this film (which was derived solely by observing the trailer) is, basically, that it doesn't shy away from stating that the conflict involves good versus evil. I guess i'm the only one that remembered The White and The Red in addition to Flagg being comfortably callous with murdering/ruining others in his quest to meddle with the underpinnings of reality to a disastrous end.

[CyberGhostface]

Well it's less that there's a good and evil conflict IMO and more making the conflict look like it's from a superhero film. In the first book Roland was pursuing Walter to get him to talk, not to have a Matrix showdown. (And I'm speaking as someone who wished King had done more with the Walter/Roland relationship.)

[Isamu Dyson]

Well it's less that there's a good and evil conflict IMO and more making the conflict look like it's from a superhero film. In the first book Roland was pursuing Walter to get him to talk, not to have a Matrix showdown. (And I'm speaking as someone who wished King had done more with the Walter/Roland relationship.)

Yes, the trailer message is somewhat overt (though...this is par for the course when it comes to Hollywood) and there is a nice bit of ambiguity/nuance across all eight novels, but one of the basic themes of The Dark Tower is "good versus evil". It appears that certain fans are pushing back because they want their work to appear, first and foremost, squarely morally grey or, dare I say, "edgy".

One more thing. By now, most fans are aware that this film is a sequel of sorts as opposed to a by-the-numbers adaptation. Events in the film need not line up neatly with the previous iteration of reality. Indeed, Roland is supposed to ultimately grow into the paragon of a gunslinger.

[CyberGhostface]

One more thing. By now, most fans are aware that this film is a sequel of sorts as opposed to a by-the-numbers adaptation. Events in the film need not line up neatly with the previous iteration of reality.

That's the excuse they're giving to justify making it a completely different story, yes. Even if it contradicts nearly everything King has said about how the you-know-what works prior and that the ensuing changes would be small and incremental.

Like I'm pretty sure the nature of it wouldn't change Pimli Prentiss from being a bald fat guy covered in pimples and craters working in Blue Heaven to turning into this guy and being Walter's right hand man.

[Isamu Dyson]

*shrugs* If using the term "excuse" instead of "reason" helps decrease those sodium chloride levels, keep at it. I am pretty sure the existence of the Horn has been no secret for close to two years now.

[mae]

[wolfehr]

One month!!!!


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[Randall Flagg]

The siguls on the guns are cool.

[Isamu Dyson]

Curious: was there ever any duel that came close to resembling a classic "showdown at high noon" in any of the books? One instance that might qualify was the only stand-up fight between teenager Roland and Eldred Jonas. Anyhow, I ask because the trailer hints at a variation on a theme involving adult Roland and his arch-nemesis (with the latter man wielding sorcery rather than a shooting iron).

[CyberGhostface]

*shrugs* If using the term "excuse" instead of "reason" helps decrease those sodium chloride levels, keep at it. I am pretty sure the existence of the Horn has been no secret for close to two years now.

I'd have more respect for the production if they didn't try to insult my intelligence in pretending that this is a canonical continuation of the books.

An example of how things could change would be Roland doesn't drop Jake and Jake is present during the drawing of the three. That would make sense. At the end of the day the reset occurs when Roland is in the desert and any changes are a result of what happens after that.