The Dark Tower

Theatrical - Wide 2017-08-04

Cast Idris Elba Matthew McConaughey Tom Taylor Fran Kranz Abbey Lee
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel
Written by Nikolaj Arcel Akiva Goldsman Anders Thomas Jensen

Box Office Gross: $113,231,078

Running Time: 95 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Columbia Pictures, MRC, Imagine Entertainment, Weed Road Pictures

Genres: Action Fantasy

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Synopsis

A 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.

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Mike Flanagan says The Dark Tower is still “very much on the table” and reveals he is currently writing his new adaptation of The Mist

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Mike Flanagan confirms that his adaptation of The Dark Tower is still in the works and Stephen King is happy with the season 1 scripts

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