"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." So begins Stephen King's magnum opus The Dark Tower, a book series that took King three decades to complete. We already know that the film will be a sequel to King's multi-genre novels, and now, there's some good news that would please long-time fans who may not like the libertie sthe film is taking with King's books.
During a recent interview with IndieWire, director Nikolaj Arcel (who's also helping with the series) revealed that the TV series will adhere closely to King's novels.
"It's being written. I was part of writing the pilot, like the first season ideas and the pilot and the second episode. It's gonna be awesome. What was exciting about that, whereas with the film, we were really trying to create an introduction and make a standalone film that could sort of live in itself, but what was also exciting, working on the TV show at the same time, is that is totally canon."
With the vast amount of events in King's multi-novel series, the TV series will be the perfect way to adhere to the scenes long-time fans would dream to see on screen. Arcel described which of King's The Dark Tower novels they will focus on:
"We're going back in the past. It's very, very closely adhering to the ‘Wizard and Glass' novel and parts of ‘The Gunslinger' novel. That was exciting to be even more like, ‘Okay, now we're going to be able to even lift lines directly, or like [write] characters exactly as they are. Which, as a fan, was exciting in a different way."
Wizard and Glass is the fourth novel in the saga, and its story is a prequel that reveals how gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) got his guns, and it looks like we'll see a lot of its plot on the small screen. Elbra is reprising his role and a fourteen-year-old Deschain (yet to be cast).
Synopsis of the film:
The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World's last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World's post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it.
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, the film also stars Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers, Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) as Tirana; Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) as Pimli, the right hand man of Randall Flagg; Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen); Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) and Claudia Kiim (Avengers: Age of Ultron).
The Dark Tower is set to release in theaters on August 4.
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