The Dark Tower
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Film · TMDB
5.8A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Released: 2017-08-0395 minDir: Nikolaj ArcelFantasy, Action, Science Fiction
Cast
- Idris Elba as Roland Deschain
- Matthew McConaughey as Walter O’Dim
- Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers
- Claudia Kim as Arra Champignon
- Fran Kranz as Pimli Prentiss
- Abbey Lee as Tirana
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
5.6/10
154,672 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
16%
Metacritic
34/100
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Nikolaj Arcel
- Screenplay by
- Akiva Goldsman Jeff Pinkner Anders Thomas Jensen Nikolaj Arcel
- Based on
- The Dark Tower , by Stephen King
- Produced by
- Akiva Goldsman Ron Howard Erica Huggins
- Starring
- Idris Elba Matthew McConaughey Tom Taylor Claudia Kim Fran Kranz Abbey Lee Jackie Earle Haley
- Cinematography
- Rasmus Videbæk
- Edited by
- Alan Edward Bell Dan Zimmerman
- Music by
- Tom Holkenborg
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures MRC Imagine Entertainment Weed Road Pictures
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release dates
- July 31, 2017 ( 2017-07-31 ) ( Museum of Modern Art ) August 4, 2017 ( 2017-08-04 ) (United States)
- Running time
Key dates
- Published
- 3 August 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Dark Tower
- Director
- Anders Thomas Jensen
- Screenwriter
- Anders Thomas Jensen
- Cast member
- Tom Taylor
- Composer
- Junkie XL
- Producer
- Akiva Goldsman
Article
The Dark Tower is a 2017 American neo-Western science fantasy film loosely based on Stephen King's novel series of the same name. Directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel, the film stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger on a quest to protect the Dark Tower—a mythical structure which supports all realities—while Matthew McConaughey plays his nemesis Walter Padick, and Tom Taylor stars as Jake Chambers, a boy who becomes Roland's apprentice.
Once intended as the first installment in a multimedia franchise, the film combines various elements from the eight-novel series, mostly from the first and third volumes, and takes place in both modern-day New York City and in Mid-World, Roland's Old West-style parallel universe. The film is also canonically a sequel to the novels.