Stephen King has been trying to adapt his seven-book Dark Tower series for the big screen for years. Finally, the approach he and rights-holders Sony Pictures settled on is not an adaptation at all but a continuation of the book series after the seventh book in the saga, released in 2004. Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, making his Hollywood debut, gets behind the camera for a movie that, like the books, follows a mysterious gunslinger named Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), his recruitment of a young boy named Jake (Tom Taylor), and a nemesis named The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). Deschain is trying to protect a dark tower that controls all reality – meaning that this film is 'going meta' and will link up directly with other Stephen King stories, each of which will exist in one of the realities protected by the dark tower. In an intriguing example of multi-platform storytelling, the movie, only 95 minutes, will then be followed a TV series starring Elba and Taylor that will air in 2018 and fill in some of the back story leading up to the film from the books. Released 3 August in Russia, 4 August in Canada and the US and 31 August in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
史蒂芬·金多年來一直在嘗試把他所著的七部《黑暗塔》小說改編成電影劇本搬上大銀幕。不過最終，他和版權所有者索尼影業決定放棄改編這部長篇小說，轉而接著最後一部拍攝續集。《黑暗塔》系列的第七本書已經在2004年出版發行。本片由丹麥導演尼柯萊·阿塞爾執導，這也是他的好萊塢處女作。影片內容和小說一樣，將圍繞神秘槍手羅蘭·德鄯（伊德瑞斯·艾爾巴飾）、槍手僱傭的年輕男孩傑克（湯姆·泰勒）和復仇者黑衣人（馬修·麥康納飾）展開。影片中，德鄯設法保護一座控制著所有現實世界的黑暗塔，每一個現實世界都包含著史蒂芬?金寫過的一個故事。也就是說，這部電影是「總攬全局式」的，與史蒂芬·金的其它作品有著直接聯繫。這是一個多平臺敘事的有趣例子，影片只有95分鐘，隨後電視劇《黑暗塔》將於2018年推出，同樣由艾爾巴和泰勒主演，裡面會補充一些電影版的背景故事。影片已於8月3日登陸俄羅斯銀幕，8月4日在加拿大和美國上映，並將於8月31日進入香港和臺灣影院。