This new character poster for The Dark Tower is the same as the last, only it brings the film’s protag and antagonist back to back. On it you’ll see Gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba, who roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world sharing the space with the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). It’s not very inspired considering how gorgeous art related to the book was.
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The film is not a direct adaptation of any of the books in the series from author Stephen King but is rather a continuation and semi-amalgamation of what’s already out there. It’s hinted that the film takes place towards the end of Deschain’s journey.
The film also stars Fran Kranz, Jackie Earle Haley, Abbey Lee, and Kathryn Winnick.
The Dark Tower, out Aug. 4, 2017, was directed by Nikolaj Arcel and produced by Akiva Goldman, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Erica Hughes.
