‘The Dark Tower’ Trailer Splits Stephen King Fans: ‘Gives Me Chills’ to ‘Thanks 4 Nothing Hollywoods’

The Dark Tower’ Trailer Splits Stephen King Fans: ‘Gives Me Chills’ to ‘Thanks 4 Nothing Hollywoods

Sony plans to release big-screen adaptation of book series on Aug. 4

The first trailer for the Idris Elba-Matthew McConaughey movie “The Dark Tower” dropped on Wednesday, and fans of the beloved Stephen King book series on which it’s based were divided about what they saw.

[...] some fans took a dimmer view of the first peek at the adaptation.

“‘The Dark Tower’ trailer looks like a remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie ‘The Last Action Hero,'” another griped.

[...] some fans worried about how much the movie seems to depart from the source material — even though the trailer won praise (“awesome”) from King himself.

The Sony release, which is directed by Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a.k.a. The Gunslinger, a roaming knight of the Old West who resides in a parallel dimension known as Mid-World.

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Together, the two go on a quest to save Mid-World from destruction, hoping to reach the titular Dark Tower and stop a dark sorcerer (Matthew McConaughey) from using it to control infinite worlds.

King is producing the film with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman, who is also sharing writing credit with Arcel, Jeff Pinkner and Anders Thomas Jensen.

@mrsundaymovies @wikipediabrown The Dark Tower trailer looks like a remake of Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie The Last Action Hero

[...] they're calling The Dark Tower movie a sequel to the books because they wanted to write whatever the fuck they wanted.

When you want to be excited about THE DARK TOWER but then Akiva Goldsman's screenwriting credit pops up pic.twitter.com/gpE1Yunkl7