The Dark Tower (Nikolaj Arcel, Aug. 4th, 2017) Movie • Page 2

I have a cat named Oy so, I mean, I'm pretty amped for this movie.

I'm all for the movie being a sequel to the books. I feel like the Journey that Roland went through in the books was the last one that he needed to finally get it right with his next try. He messed it all up near the end by begging Susannah to stay when she chose to leave. The lesson he has to learn is to not let the goal of reaching the Dark Tower cloud his judgement so much that he does wrong by his friends. I got the sense that he kept a piece of wisdom from each of his previous journey and that's what he needed to take from the journey in the book to finally reach and end goal on the next go-around.
Did any other book readers get that vibe or do you think I'm way off base and he's doomed to repeat the same mistakes for eternity like an extremely cowboy version of Sisyphus?

 

dude when the fucking hell are we getting a trailer for this

 

When is the date for this? I'm assuming the thread title is now wrong.

 

July 28th, I believe.

 

If you didn't know, there was a trailer leaked awhile ago but it was unfinished and had a bunch of green screen. I wasn't able to find it again after the day it leaked.

 

Yeah, same thing happened to me. Probably good I wasn't able to see but god damn, I don't know the last time I was so antsy for a trailer.

 

lol. one google search and I found the leak

Dropbox - File 2016-10-11, 6 57 33 AM.mp4

 

I wish I didn't watch that haha

 

Matthew McConaughey Explains Why He Chose ‘The Dark Tower’ over ‘Guardians 2’

 

That rough trailer cut, having no knowledge of the books or this movie, looks pretty badass.

 

I regretted not having these in physical form. Guess I'll be rereading the series soon...

 

I started my re-read last night for this. Remind me to update the thread title if I don't get to it soon.

 

I'm glad the release date got pushed back, if for no other reason than I'll be able to take the summer to read the series for the first time.

 

Okay, fixed the release date in the title. I wish I knew why this wasn't being called The Gunslinger so that the final film would be The Dark Tower. Can't seem to find why other than the nature of it being a quasi-sequel.

 

I'm not a huge fan of the film just being called The Dark Tower, especially since we know they have a fairly ambitious plan set out. I guess part of it is for name recognition (though they could name it The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger), my guess is that even though the movie is supposed to sort of be like The Gunslinger structurally, it supposedly takes moments and set pieces from all over the series so they wanted to go as simple as possible instead of tying it specifically to one novel.

 

I've been thinking about getting this even though I have all the books. It's a really great looking collection.

 

Yeah it's a really cool looking set. My only gripe is that on all of the books and on the box itself it says "a major motion picture starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey". Not a deal breaker but I personally wish they would have left that off. Otherwise it's great.

 

Ah, yeah I see that now, a bit annoying. Think they probably could have put it on the Gunslinger and moved on, ha.

 

Yeah but oh well, it really is a cool looking set. Oh and just in case it wasn't obvious, it's a paperback collection not a hardback. Which I was totally fine with but thought I'd mention since you said you were considering buying.

 

Yeah this is my first time seeing the paperback copies of 5-7 which I have in hardcover. Looks like Gunslinger and Wastelands are the only ones with similar cover art to my copies. Although I do have 3 different copies of The Gunslinger for random reasons.

 

It seems pretty clear this won't be an adaptation of just The Gunslinger, so that probably explains the title

 

But it's also not an adaptation of the final book titled The Dark Tower.

 

Sure, but the series is The Dark Tower, so I feel like it makes sense. Also, in the end, everything comes down to money. They probably thought, "Well, what's more marketable and recognizable, 'The Gunslinger' or 'The Dark Tower'?" and went with the latter. "Gunslinger" is too ubiquitous a term, but "The Dark Tower"? That might catch some attention.

 

I mean the Dark Tower:The Gunslinger would have worked. We know the Drawing isn't happening. Not a big deal though.

 

Unfortunately, I have a feeling this is very much going to be Jake's story (this first movie, I mean) and Roland is going to take the backseat. At least, that's the vibe I got from the leaked trailer. God damn, I want to love this movie, but I'm losing faith