The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower (2017)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2017-08-03

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, MRC, Weed Road Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, The Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa

Genre

Fantasy, Action, Science Fiction

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$113 231 078

Website

http://thedarktower-movie.com

Director

Nikolaj Arcel

Actors

Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Fran Kranz, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley, Katheryn Winnick, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Barbieri
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Scenario

Producer

Brian Grazer, Stephen King, Akiva Goldsman, Ron Howard, Erica Huggins, Anders Thomas Jensen, G. Mac Brown, Erica Huggins, Trish Hofmann, Jeff Pinkner

Operator

Rasmus Videbæk

Composer

Tom Holkenborg

Artist

Jeffrey D. McDonald, Juan Sanchez, Maria Labuschagne

Audition

Mary Vernieu, Marisol Roncali, Kate Geller

Editing

Dan Zimmerman, Alan Edward Bell, Kelly Todd
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• Actors Daniel Craig, Viggo Mortensen, and Javier Bardem were considered for the lead role.
• Stephen King sold the rights to adapt the "Dark Tower" cycle for $19.19. The number 19 is one of the key symbols in the books of the cycle.
• Pedro Pascal was considered for the role of Roland Deschain.
• In their travels, Roland and his companions often encounter graffiti created by Bangos Skank, an artist from Mid-World.
• Roland and his companions repeatedly fall into a trance state (todesh) that accompanies travel between worlds.
• In the film, the psychotherapist has a picture of the Overlook Hotel in a frame, which was the setting for another King screenplay, 'The Shining'.
• The portal number in the village through which Jake and Roland travel to Earth is 1408, which is also the title of a short story by Stephen King. A film of the same name based on the story was released in 2007.
• In the forest among the ruins of an amusement park, a sign for 'Pennywise's Funhouse' is visible, and a clown's hand holding balloons protrudes from the ground. Pennywise is the clown, the main antagonist of Stephen King's novel 'It'.
• Stephen King sold the rights to adapt the "Dark Tower" cycle for $19.19. The number 19 is one of the key symbols in the books of the cycle.
• In the film, the psychotherapist has a picture of the "Overlook" hotel framed on the wall, which was the setting in another of King's scenarios, "The Shining".
• In the forest, among the ruins of an amusement park, a sign reading "Pennywise's House of Mirrors" is visible, and a clown's hand protrudes from the ground, holding balloons. Pennywise is the clown, the main antagonist of Stephen King's novel "It".