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Fresh ‘Dark Tower’ Trailer Enters the KINGdom, References ‘The Shining’, ‘IT’, ‘Carrie’, and more!
Ever since the first trailer for The Dark Tower arrived, we’ve been digging for easter eggs that reference other Stephen King properties. We noticed in the film’s first trailer that, on the desk of a therapist’s office, is a photo of The Shining‘s infamous Overlook Hotel, and later, young Jake Chambers stumbles across what looks to be the ruins of Pennywise’s very own theme park! Another monstrous easter egg was confirmed by King, who revealed that Cujo will take a bite out of the cast, while director Nikolaj Arcel teased in a reddit AMA that we’ll also see the car from Christine!
The studio took the fun out of digging when they released Monday’s trailer that literally reveals all of the easter eggs in the film, which unfortunately doesn’t include King himself. All but one, that is.
A new trailer teasing the new KINGdom not only references, IT, The Shining, and Christine but also promises that The Dark Tower will also harken back to Carrie!
The film is not a direct adaptation of any of the books in the series from author Stephen King but rather a “canon continuation” of the story presented in the novels.
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle. Fran Kranz, Jackie Earle Haley, Abbey Lee, and Kathryn Winnick also star.
The Dark Tower was directed by Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Akiva Goldman, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Erica Hughes.
Look for it on August 4, 2017.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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