The Dark Tower official trailer has finally landed and if anything it’s looking even better than expected with both Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar) and Idris Elba (Thor: Ragnarok) coming across well in the lead roles. With a huge amount of hype ahead of the release of the trailer, expectations were pretty high for the adaptation of the Stephen King series, but the trailer shot straight to the top of YouTube trending, which gives a pretty good indication that it’s going to be one of the year’s big film releases.
The books themselves have a pretty significant fan following and with the story for the film trying to encapsulate elements from eight books in one, the pressure is definitely on. The trailer does a lot to quell any concerns for the film, showing off what looks like it’s going to be a searing big screen adaptation of the other-worldly realm of the Dark Tower.
The Dark Tower trailer:
With Stephen King’s Tweet of a photo of the Horn of Eld, we already know that the film is going to be more of a sequel to the entire saga than an adaptation. The trailer doesn’t really go into this in any real way, though, as it simply focuses on the story as though it is the first time it has ever been told.
It shows the triangular link between Roland Deschain, a.k.a. the Gunslinger, a kid from New York called Jake Chambers and the dreaded Man in Black. Idris Elba looks every bit the part as the Gunslinger and with Matthew McConaughey hunting him every step of the way as a very sinister Man in Black, the cast is starting to feel like a good call on the part of director Nikolaj Arcel.
The two are locked in an eternal battle for the Dark Tower with the Gunslinger trying to protect it and the Man in Black, also known as Walter O’Dim, determined to destroy it in a bid to unleash hell on the entire universe.
Jake Chambers features heavily in the trailer also and he’ll be played by newcomer Tom Taylor. It shows him starting out in New York City as he’s receiving therapy for the visions he’s been having of Mid-World, the Gunslinger, the Man in Black and the Dark Tower. The strange experiences lead him to an abandoned house where there is a portal to Mid-World where he joins the gunslinger on his quest to save the universe.
However, the trailer also implies that the battle returns to New York with Jake telling Idris Elba’s character that he’s going to like Earth a lot.
There are a number of rumours and speculation that The Dark Tower may go on to be a larger series of films, but it will probably be dependent on the success of the movie when the release date comes around in August 2017. Let us know what you think of the trailer in the comments below.
