After being teased yesterday, the first official trailer for "The Dark Tower" hit the internet. I think a lot of people were curious just how this series was supposed to be adapted. Even if you were to go with the "movie for each book" approach, that's still a lot of content to cover. There were also certain plot points that wouldn't translate well to screen.
From the look of the trailer, this is going to be streamlined, which is probably for the best. I'm not sure how many movies are being planned. There was talk of doing a TV series to go alongside the movies, but I don't think anything really came of that, at least not yet.
It looks like this movie is going to draw from the first two books. Considering "Drawing of the Three" is a much stronger entry, that does make sense, as it will hook the viewers right off the bat. There's no mention of Eddie or Susannah, but again, this is just the first movie.
As to faithfulness to the source material (which admittedly isn't as relevant as usual considering the approach they took with this movie,) I think the biggest change is the fact that Jake is not only aware of the tower and the multiverse, but seems to take an active role in seeking Roland out. I suppose it saves the exposition dumps, though at the same time, it did seem like some of the conversations fell into that trap.
It also seems like there are only going to be two worlds, as opposed to an infinite multiverse. It fits in with the streamlining goal, though I think at this point, people wouldn't have that hard a time grasping the concept. Even taking that into account, Jake's line about billions of people being killed seems like a gross underestimation of casualties. Then again, there could only be a handful of inhabited planets (like in Dragon Ball Super) so maybe he's not that far off the mark?
Elba looks like he's going to be a solid Roland. That's not really a surprise, though. It was nice to see him rapidly load his gun. That was a trick that I wasn't sure would translate well to screen, but they did about as good a job with that as you could ask.
On the other side, McConaughey looks like he's having a lot of fun playing the villain. Some people were skeptical of this casting choice, but I was always on board with it. That's going to be really entertaining to watch.
It is a bit strange that the trailer is structured in such a way that it looks like this is Jake's story. I can understand the logic of him being the audience identifier, but it might still raise some eyebrows.
All in all, I thought the trailer was solid. I wasn't blown away, but it offered a pretty good glimpse into what we'll see without walking us through the entire plot. It looks like we'll get some impressive confrontations between the two leads and the scope is well established.
We've even got a release date, August 4. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
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