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Here’s Every Stephen King Easter Egg in ‘The Dark Tower’
There are worlds other than these.
Long before “cinematic universes” were the hottest thing in Hollywood, Stephen King had his own going on throughout his many novels and short stories. Big and small references throughout King’s works unite many of them inside something of a shared storytelling universe, and The Dark Tower saga is at the center of it all.
So I suppose it makes perfect sense that director Nikolaj Arcel worked so many Stephen King Easter eggs into his feature film adaptation of The Dark Tower (read our review), now out in theaters. The film is absolutely loaded with references to other King stories, most of which were unfortunately spoiled by the marketing campaign.
One of the very first shots of the film shows us two twin girls who look a lot like the Grady Twins from The Shining ; they even repeat the iconic line, “Come play with us,” just in case you didn’t get the reference. From there we’re treated to Easter eggs for tales such as Christine, Salem’s Lot, Misery and 1408… to name just a handful.
My personal favorite Easter egg is the appearance of killer dog Cujo, who’s being walked down the street by a mother and son who look a lot like Donna and Tad Trenton!
Check out every Stephen King reference in The Dark Tower below.
STEPHEN KING’S IT
THE SHINING
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
CUJO
CHRISTINE
THE SHINING
MR. MERCEDES
STAND BY ME
MISERY
1408
SALEM’S LOT
Abigail Cowen (“Stranger Things,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” The Ritual) will lead the cast of psychedelic horror movie The Guide, Deadline reports this week.
James Badge Dale (13 Hours) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) will also star. Inon Shampanier directs from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier.
Deadline details, “Abigail Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (James Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
“This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat,” Inon Shampanier said in a statement to Deadline.
Stay tuned for more on The Guide as we learn it.
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