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Okay. Okay… okay. Are we good? Are we ready to talk this shit one time? Are we ready to dive headfirst into this old west fantasy world fleekness? Okay. If you can’t tell, I don’t even know where to start this shit, yo. So here we are, The Dark Tower, Stephen King’s eight book collection and self-titled Magnum Opus. And it ain’t like King ain’t dense already. But eight books of mind-melding fantasy principles, my gunslinger? Sheeeeeeiit.
Now, I say all that shi to say that if you think you are getting a “faithful” movie adaptation of the books, you out your gotdamn mind, fam. This shit been called impossible to adapt and that’s probably right, so what we getting, is a movie heavily inspired by the Dark Tower. Which, for the record, still sounds dope. But most people that have read the Dark Tower series can’t explain that shit to you without suffering some mind meld that leaves them curled in the corner moaning “Hodor Hodor” afterwards, so the this version is probably about the right speed anyway. Like, I could try to explain the arc of Jake Chambers to you in the book and that thing with the mountain and the mid-world and the wastelands, but I planned on being productive and can’t afford to put myself in a coma this early in the day. And is this dude supposed to be Jake Chambers in the trailer? Cuz that New York looks a lot newer than 1977. But…ya know what, nevermind.
Aiight, with that out the way, let’s get into this trailer and by get into this trailer, let’s look at Id…
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