Filmatiseringen av Stephen Kings bokföljetong The Dark Tower (en mycket märklig mix mellan Clint Eastwoods slibbigaste spaghetti-western-rullar och Sagan om ringen) är snart färdig och Sony passar just nu på att visa cirka fem minuter av filmen under pågående CinemaCon 2017 och filmskribenterna som fått se klippet är lyriska. Cinemablend gör sitt bästa för att beskriva det i sin helhet:
"Set in the woods, the footage began with a panicked and clearly injured Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) pointing his two guns in random directions, looking for a target. Though we can't see who is speaking, we hear the voice of The Man In Black (Matthew McConaughey), who does his best to make his foe give up, telling him that the war is over and that he can't even save himself let alone anyone else. Finally making eyes on his target, he announces "I don't kill with my gun; I kill with my heart," and fires a shot at the back of The Man In Black, who is walking away from him. Without any sense of worry, The Man In Black reaches behind him, catches the bullet, and continues, saying "The Tower will fall, Roland."
This showdown is interrupted by our first look at Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), who suddenly wakes up in bed startled to find that his bed is shaking. In a scene with a therapist, Jake is asked about the visions that he sees, and tells the doctor about a shadowy man and the image of a Dark Tower than protects the universe (these descriptions accompanied by dark charcoal drawings). The therapist tells him that these are just dreams, but this point is somewhat unwritten by the fact that the entire office begins to quake similar to what was happening in Jake's bedroom.
We then see Jake in the street holding a drawing he's done of a house -- and he seems surprised to discover that the exact same house is standing in front of him. While it's definitely abandoned, the teenager goes in anyway, and as he walks the walls and floor begin to move. Eventually he discovers what can only be described as a portal, and after leaping out of it finds himself in a desert landscape with a giant ringed planet on the horizon. It's here that Jake runs into Roland, and he immediately recognizes him as "The Gunslinger" -- noting that he's had dreams about his acts of bravery saving a town. As Roland is quick to point out, however, that was no dream.
After some quick shots of glowing-gun action, we hear Roland explain his relationship with The Man In Black (who we see walking through the same portal from before, only leaving his world and entering ours). The Gunslinger notes that as long as The Man In Black is out there, "the Tower will fall and hell will follow." The footage then featured all kinds of crazy action, from Roland loading his six-shooters with insane speed, the Man In Black holding some kind of strange glowing ball. One of the big action pieces had Roland charging at the Man In Black and shooting glass that freezes before piercing the villain. As the glass is about to be redirected Roland's way, we watch in slow motion as he tosses two sets of full chambers in the air, catches them in his guns, and fires."