Somehow resistant to Walter’s spells, he has endured while the Man in Black killed everyone he loved. Elba plays Roland Deschain, the last of an honorable warrior clan called the Jedi Knigh- er, the Gunslingers. Jake manages to find a teleportation gizmo that sends him into one of those parallel Earths - a post-apocalyptic place called Mid-World whose inhabitants have fought Walter for, presumably, eons. 'The Dark Tower': What the Critics Are Saying Though nobody ever hints at why Walter might want to set unpredictable, violent monsters loose on infinite Earths instead of just ruling over them - he coos commands to people and they magically do whatever he asks - it’s hard to have a save-the-universe adventure without a villain bent on destruction. Beyond these worlds lies a void full of monsters, we’re told. We’ll soon learn that he’s attempting to harness the psychic energy of gifted children to destroy the eponymous Tower, which protects not just our planet (known here as “Keystone Earth”) but an unknown number of parallel worlds. The Man in Black is McConaughey’s Walter O’Dim, a sorcerer known by several names in King’s books. But the mysterious Man in Black that Jake has seen in his dreams knows otherwise, and his minions are already en route to kidnap the boy. Despite (or maybe because of) the specificity of these John the Baptist-grade revelations, Jake’s parents and shrink are sure it’s all a fantasy, the emotional fallout of a death in the family. Things begin promisingly, with visions of impending doom that haunt the nightmares of a New York City kid named Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor). That’s tough to believe when looking at the finished product, a save-the-multiverse sci-fi fantasy that is, if anything, too easily digested. Recent industry gossip described a troubled shoot and early edits that were so confusing to test audiences they prompted much postproduction tinkering by producers and studio execs. That’s roughly what Danish director Nikolaj Arcel offers in The Dark Tower, weaving elements from the published books into a new premise suggested by the series’ end and paring the whole mythology down enough to fit into a mere hour and a half. Few, presumably, started out with the idea that the best way to wrangle this mountain of plot was to write a new sequel to it. For over a decade, some of Hollywood’s most successful storytellers have wanted to turn Stephen King‘s eight-book Dark Tower saga into movies.
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