The Dark Tower (August 4, 2017) (1 Viewer)

[Sam Posten]

Thanks Josh.

 

[dpippel]

Some more images:

 

[Lou Sytsma]

All the EW articles can be found here:

The Dark Tower: EW's complete coverage of the Stephen King adaptation

Parts III, V, & VI are the meaty ones - and give you a good idea of how the movie will play out.

Any one download and try the Sombra app? You uncover pretty cool things when scanning Dark Tower pictures.

For example scanning the EW Cover gives you this:

Other images show you thinnies.

 

[TonyD]

I've been thinking of reading the books.
Are these stories set as a western or is it different settings because I see the main guy is the Gunslinger and looks like a cowboy but I also see they are on a bus?

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I've been thinking of reading the books.
Are these stories set as a western or is it different settings because I see the main guy is the Gunslinger and looks like a cowboy but I also see they are on a bus?

The books are primarily set in a post-apocalyptic alternate universe, but Roland (the gunslinger) crosses to our world in modern times at different points, so to answer your question, both.

 

[Lou Sytsma]

I've been thinking of reading the books.
Are these stories set as a western or is it different settings because I see the main guy is the Gunslinger and looks like a cowboy but I also see they are on a bus?

Further to Josh's post, the Dark Tower books are the poster child for cross genre fiction. It's got it all - SF, horror, fantasy, epic quest, romance, redemption, coming of age, mystery, thriller, action etc etc.

 

[dpippel]

Idris Elba has wrapped filming his scenes for The Dark Tower, and it's been confirmed that there will be a spin-off TV series that adapts King's Wizard and Glass and explores the backstory of the characters. Elba is slated to appear as Roland:

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-dark-tower-tv-series/

 

[Sean Bryan]

A TV miniseries seems to be an appropriate way to adapt Wizzard and Glass.

Though I wonder, since Eddy and Susanna aren't in the first movie will Roland be telling his story only to Jake?

 

[dpippel]

The release of The Dark Tower has been pushed back to summer of 2017, supposedly to give the production more time to complete visual effects work. No word on a firm date yet:

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/dark-tower-stephen-king-delayed-1201908359/

 

[Josh Steinberg]

The old date seemed pretty quick to me, give when they started.

The newer date is probably better in terms of having more time, but I worry that this will be ignored if it's dropped in the middle of a busy summer marketplace. Stephen King's name, for better or worse, doesn't seem to guarantee a hit at the box office anymore. I think, if done well, the movie could appeal to a wide audience, but I think it needs to come out at a time of year when movies get more than one weekend - word of mouth will be crucial to this movie, I don't think it can open huge on its own.

 

[dpippel]

Roland faces off with the Man in Black:

 

[dpippel]

Sony has officially delayed The Dark Tower until summer of 2017:

http://screenrant.com/dark-tower-movie-delay-2017/

 

[dpippel]

First official poster released by Sony:

 

[Malcolm R]

Very generic and non-descriptive. If I saw that poster anywhere than in this thread, I'd have no idea what it was promoting.

 

[dpippel]

Unless maybe you've read the novels? This teaser poster seems to be directly targeting those folks.

 

[Lou Sytsma]

It's a pretty weak poster. Especially when considering all the fantastic artwork already created for this series.

 

[Lou Sytsma]

Pretty, pretty quiet on the DT front since the picture was moved to a summer release date. A positive sign that Sony still believes in the picture, happened last weekend as Elba flew into LA from Vancouver - where he is just wrapped shooting another novel adaptation - The Mountain Between Us - with Kate Winslett, to do some pickup shots for the DT movie.

Here he is with a 'popkin' and a Coke, and the ubiquitous -'spit bucket.'

Great to see a dustier look to him.

Full article here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4283234/Idris-Elba-chows-filming-scenes-LA.html

Hoping we get a teaser or trailer of some sort this month when Sony's - horror/SF flick - Life hits the theaters on March 28th.

 

[dpippel]

First theatrical poster...

 

[ChristopherG]

I've been thinking of reading the books.
Are these stories set as a western or is it different settings because I see the main guy is the Gunslinger and looks like a cowboy but I also see they are on a bus?

Do this.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Great use of negative space in that poster.