The logical question to ask, is why does the Man in Black want to destroy the Tower, and why does he hate Roland so much? To answer that, we have to go back to the very creation of the character, whom King introduced in another novel, 'The Stand.' There, he was called Randall Flagg, and he has appeared in various guises in many of King's stories, though it's important to remember that it's always the same character. So Roland's quest to stop the Man in Black from carrying out his evil plan of destruction is pretty important, all things considered. If those beams are damaged, or the Tower falls, all of existence will collapse. The beams connect to other worlds, and while the Tower still stands, and those beams remain intact, the universe exists.

It is a real, tangible place, and from that place, eight beams flow. The Tower sits in the center of all existence. He wants to destroy the tower, and, as is mentioned often in the books, he is both chasing and being chased by, Roland.Ĭonfused? Let's start with the Tower itself. The Man in Black (Matthew McConnaughey), on the other hand, is firmly on the side of evil. Essentially the role of a gunslinger is a kind of old-style Wild West Cowboy law enforcement, but Roland is exceptionally skilled and life has led him on a quest to reach the Dark Tower before the Man in Black. Roland is the last in a long line of gunslingers hailing from Gilead in Mid-World. On the good side, is Roland Deschain (Idris Elba). The essence of the tale remains the same, though a battle of good versus evil.

Those who have read the books will know exactly what that means, but for those that haven't think of it as a retelling of all the books with plenty of differences thrown in, and plenty taken out. Instead, The Dark Tower movie serves as another cycle of Roland's tale. The resulting movie sits somewhere between the two The Dark Toweris not a faithful retelling of the first book in King's seven novel series, neither is is a retelling of all the books combined. It was always going to be a difficult line for director Nikolaj Arcel to walk fans of the book wouldn't want to waste precious time having the plot and structure explained to them, but to scrimp on that risks alienating newcomers to the franchise. The cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower has finally arrived in theaters, though the movie might not be everything that fans of King's magnum opus had been hoping for.

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