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Watch the blis­ter­ing first trail­er for The Dark Tower

03 May 2017

Words by Little White Lies

Idris Elba and Matthew McConaugh­ey duke it out in this trig­ger-hap­py fan­ta­sy western.

Adapt­ing Stephen King’s ​‘The Dark Tow­er’ for the big screen was nev­er going to be an easy task – not when his acclaimed series of eight books con­tains styl­is­tic ele­ments and nar­ra­tive themes from mul­ti­ple gen­res, name­ly fan­ta­sy, sci­ence fic­tion, hor­ror and western.

But judg­ing by this first offi­cial trail­er it looks as though writer/​director Niko­laj Arcel and screen­writ­ers Aki­va Golds­man, Jeff Pinkn­er and Anders Thomas Jensen have pulled it off, even if the film appears to strike a slight­ly dif­fer­ent tone to King’s source material.

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Idris Elba stars as Roland Deschain aka The Gun­slinger, who relent­less­ly pur­sues Matthew McConaughey’s mys­te­ri­ous Man in Black across a bar­ren land­scape which evokes America’s Old West. The Gun­slinger is simul­ta­ne­ous­ly search­ing for the tit­u­lar Dark Tow­er, which may hold the secret to restor­ing his dying world.

This trail­er effec­tive­ly sets up the sto­ry with­out giv­ing to much away. Promis­ing­ly, it also doesn’t skimp on the action, and any use of an old Ennio Mor­ri­cone score is always going to get a big tick from us. Check it out and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

The Dark Tow­er is released 4 August.

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