With Comic-Con a
stone's throw away, Sony Pictures has begun to market Nikolaj Arcel's upcoming
big screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower.
Today, Entertainment
Weekly has a series of new exclusive images featuring more of the cast and additional
information.
Every hero needs a
weapon with which to vanquish evil. Captain America has his shield, Hellboy has
the Samaritan, and Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) has his two six-shooters that
have a very particular connection to a mythical tale from our world.
"Forged
from Excalibur," Elba says. "A very special weapon." The
gunslinger doesn't think of them as toys. He draws them only when there's no
other choice. "He’s not just a shoot ‘em up type cowboy," the actor
adds.
Having
visions of strange lands, evil cloaked in darkness, a gun-wielding hero, a
foreboding tower, and mysterious doorways, Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) is being
targeted for his ability (the Shine) to see all these things and more.
"Everybody around him thinks he's crazy and he probably even thinks he’s a little bit crazy," says director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel of Tom's character, who lives in present day New York and is "having visions of this big, grand tower that binds everything and holds all the universes together, and he’s having visions of this one man, Roland, the Gunslinger that’s calling out to him."
Jake
(above) stands in one of the many portals that can be used to travel between
worlds. In this case he is in a decrepit Brooklyn mansion known as Dutch Hill,
which literally comes to life every time an intruder tries to pass through its
gateway. "We’re trying to have rules, basically, for the way the house
becomes a monster," Arcel says of the house. "Wood shouldn’t suddenly
become rubber. It should have particles and fibers and break. And when
certain elements are not touching one another, things don’t levitate.
Everything has to be touching for it to be alive. Otherwise it just falls, gravity takes
over."
"The
Devil’s a handsome man," McConaughey says of his character The Man in
Black, an enforcer for the Crimson King and powerful sorcerer in his own right
who is trying to capture psychics (Jake) to destroy the tower and free his
master. "I’ve seen the pale Devil." He shakes his head. "No, no,
no. I’ve seen the Nosferatic Devil -- no. I said, ‘Black suit, black coat --
let’s look really sharp.’” Even his spiky hair seems design to
impale. "A crow-vibe. We’ve also got some Brian Grazer in there," he
says, referring to The Dark Tower producer. "I said hair back,
flames back, full face. I wanted to be completely exposed."
"He’s
supernatural. He’s a knight of Mid-World. He has fast healing abilities. He’s
not that easy to kill, and also, by the way, it’s very hard to get to
him," Arcel says of Elba's gun wielding character. "He’s such a
formidable fighter, gunslinger, and in battle it’s very hard to best the
gunslinger."
Portals
in The Dark Tower work both ways, so if Jake travels to Mid-World, it is also
possible for Roland to get a taste of New York, which he definitely does.
"The
single biggest structural conceit is Jake as the point of entry," he says.
"Doesn’t every kid at one point think that the things in the shadows are
real? Doesn’t every little boy imagine that there is a world that you can’t
quite see?" co-writer Akiva Goldsman says. "New York is literally
like that. There’s the feeling of a labyrinth behind the face of the city, and
I think that’s really consistent with a child’s imagination and the sense of a
magical world hiding just beneath the surface."
"In
the beginning of the story Roland is kind of a lost soul. All he’s thinking
about is killing the Man in Black, his arch nemesis," Arcel says.
"He’s all about revenge. He’s all about trying to track down this man who
has hurt him throughout his entire life. Taken away his friends. Taken away
like his father, his mother. Everybody. The love of his life... So this is
where we find him. He’s a man blinded by the longing for revenge. That’s where
Jake finds him."
Opening in theaters on February 17, 2017, The Dark Tower also stars Claudia
Kim ("Avengers: Age of Ultron"), Jackie Earle Haley
("Preacher"), Abbey Lee ("Mad Max: Fury Road"), Katheryn
Winnick ("Vikings"), Franz Kranz ("Cabin in the Woods"),
Michael Barbieri ("Spider-Man: Homecoming"), José Zuñiga
("Victor"), Alex McGregor ("Young Ones"), and Nicholas
Hamilton ("Captain Fantastic").
Source - EW
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