From Book to Screen: The Dark Tower

“The man in black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” That’s the opening line of the Gunslinger, the first out of eight books in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The Dark Tower movie opens with the exact same scene, with Idris Elba as the Gunslinger, Roland, and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black. However, instead of an adaption of arguably Stephen’s King’s best works, the movie is more of a continuation of the series.