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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.
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
Themes
- mind control
- new york city
- gunslinger
- based on novel or book
- portal
- desert
- parallel world
- another world
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Ratings
IMDb
5.6/10
154,672 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
16%
Metacritic
34/100
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- 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
- 95 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $66 million
- Box office
- $113.2 million
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Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Dark Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.