![]() ![]() ![]() His horror ( The Shining, Carrie, It) and drama ( Misery, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Body, which inspired Stand by Me) can make the jump, but the more complex (or just plain weird) stuff- Maximum Overdrive, Sleepwalkers-rarely looks right onscreen. ![]() He’s a genius who conjures wonderful premises, but his more cerebral ideas are difficult to translate onto a screen. I’ve read some King, and seen quite a few movies and TV shows based on his stories, and while watching The Dark Tower something dawned on me: the less fanatical an adaptation of King’s work, the better it fares. (Warning: Spoilers follow.)īut that’s just me. Neither has forgotten the face of her father. Fallon has read the books Watercutter hasn’t. Written by no fewer than four writers (not including King), the movie arrives with a lean 95-minute runtime and the kind of Rotten Tomatoes score (21% and barely climbing) that studios fear.īut is it possible the critics aren’t being fair? Is it possible Arcel made a movie so faithful to King’s work that just won’t connect with all audiences? Or, conversely, did he make one that attempted to please crowds but lost sight of the story? Did he shoot with his eye, not with his mind? WIRED editors Sarah Fallon and Angela Watercutter are here to sort it out. Director Nikolaj Arcel’s version of King’s events finally hits theaters today. But with time-jumping metanarratives and compulsive genre-switching, the eight novels proved tough to wrangle into one film-able narrative. Filmmakers have been trying to adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series for more than a decade. ![]()
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