Stephen King may have just revealed a huge twist from the Dark Tower movie

Onion A/V Club ^ | May 19, 2016 | Sam Barsanti

[OddLane]

Stephen King tends to be one of the biggest cheerleaders for adaptations of his own work. People who follow him on Twitter know that they can always count on him to post trailers or send out reminders when new episodes of 11/22/63 are available, but one of his recent tweets about director Nikolaj Arcel’s adaptation of his Dark Tower books goes a lot further than just saying how excited he is for it. In fact, it might even be a really big twist for how the movie is going to handle the original story’s surprise ending—the real ending, that is. The ending that King prefaced with a warning about how readers probably wouldn’t like it.

Obviously, then, saying anything else is a big spoiler, so this is your final warning.

The Dark Tower saga centers around a guy named Roland who is on a quest to reach the eponymous tower and stop a villain called the Crimson King from using it to destroy all of reality. When he gets there, he’s supposed to triumphantly blow the Horn Of Eld, an object that has been passed down through his family for generations. However, when the reader meets Roland in the first book, he has long since lost the horn.

[CharlesOConnell]

CS Lewis had an unpublished, partially completed adult sci-fi novel titled "Dark Tower". Fellows at a major English university rig up a visual window, without sound, into a parallel dimension in which there is a highly developed science, however, on a completely different track than modern, conventional western science. The fellows watch as a young man and young woman present their spines to be stung by a bestial ruler with an implanted sting in his forehead, the Stinging Man.

[Vince Ferrer]

I haven’t read the book, but if anyone wanted to have a gigantic twist from a Steven King novel, it would be to have the characters openly stating Christian beliefs turn out to not be crazy.

[treetopsandroofs]

IIRC, there were SEVEN books in this series, the worst I’ve ever read of “Stephen King”, if in fact he’s actually written anything in the last twenty years, of which I am extremely doubtful.

Hard to believe the movie could be worse than the books, which SUCKED, and the ending was worse.

Loved the Stand and several other early books, but he jumped the shark for me a long time ago.

[OddLane]

That-along with The Lord of the Rings and the Robert Browning poem-was one of the inspirations for this series.

[Ransomed]

These are the only Steven King books I have tried to read, it stinks on ice. Put it down halfway through the 2nd book. What I suspected from the sort who hold King up as this great writer proved dead on. I am a huge sci-fi/fantasy fan, most of the writers I dig are simply better than King, and much less puerile. And I have noticed his fans are usually much less well read, and so they don’t know how putrid it really is.

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