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With today’s trailer reveal, we are at the starting point for the film itself, out Aug. 4, and starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey._ by [Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly May 3, 2017 2:08 PM UTC by [Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly May 3, 2017 2:08 PM UTC _Forgetting the face of your father …_ In the realm of Stephen King’s _The Dark Tower_, that phrase means to forget one’s heritage, one’s history, one’s … foundation. The starting point. With today’s trailer reveal, we are at the starting point for the film itself, out Aug. 4, and starring Idris Elba as Roland the gunslinger, the last of a group of six-shooting knights in a blighted, apocalyptic world. He’s trying to reach a mystical tower that binds all space and time, but a demonic magic-wielder known as The Man in Black (played by Matthew McConaughey) is also pursuing the structure. Their shortcut runs straight through our time and place — and to complete the journey, each of the men needs Jake Chambers (played by Tom Taylor), a boy from New York City who has world-shaking psychic abilities. Jake’s psychic power is known as “the shine,” which can either strengthen the Tower or help collapse it — and it’s also a phrase that should be familiar to any King fan. In fact, the movie has a sly homage to _The Shining_ hidden within it. (There’s also a hint of Pennywise from _It_.) Check back to EW.com shortly for details on those — and a scene-by-scene deep dive into _The Dark Tower_ trailer. Director Nikolaj Arcel (a lifelong King reader, best known for the Danish drama _A Royal Affair_) has the challenge of blending _The Dark Tower_‘s unusual elixir of genres: fantasy, science fiction, revenge, horror, and western. What makes _The Dark Tower_ a challenge to sell is precisely what makes it interesting. Is it _The Lord of the Rings_ or _A Fistful of Dollars_? The answer is yes — and no. All at once. “I constantly have to make sure people understand, because it is such a vast mythology,” says Arcel, who is currently deep in the editing process. “The script is using elements from several of the books to try and marry all these ideas together. We’re bringing everybody along to explain all the mythology while also telling our story.” Here’s how Arcel describes it to friends who are unfamiliar with King’s epic series of novels: “I say it’s an action-adventure about a great rivalry between The Man in Black, who’s this amazing, horrible sorcerer who is traveling through worlds and creating chaos and destruction, and then the gunslinger – part of a legendary, ancient caste of gunslingers, who are heroes.” The books begin: _The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed._ In some thematic ways – and this will sound no less crazy – _The Dark Tower_ is a mystical version of _Zero Dark Thirty:_ a dangerous, sophisticated terrorist is relentlessly pursued before he can strike again. “The gunslinger has been hurt so many times throughout his life by this man, and now he’s on the hunt – and he needs to find and stop him,” Arcel says. (You can hear more from Arcel today on EW Radio, Sirius XM 105 on “Behind the Scenes,” airing at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. ET.) _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/movies/2017/05/03/the-dark-tower-reveals-itself-in-new-trailer/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' Trailer: Watch ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/"},"headline":"Stephen King's The Dark Tower Trailer Goes on a Trip to an Apocalyptic World","datePublished":"2017-05-03T14:08:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:46.965Z","description":"With today’s trailer reveal, we are at the starting point for the film itself, out Aug. 4, and starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.","url":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b3db7e4c2c645c/6988cbcbbc6cfc11ce3e130a/dark-tower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Anthony Breznican / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33b3db7e4c2c645c/6988cbcbbc6cfc11ce3e130a/dark-tower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dark-tower","caption":"","creditText":"Youtube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/","name":"Stephen King's The Dark Tower Trailer Goes on a Trip to an Apocalyptic World"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"With today’s trailer reveal, we are at the starting point for the film itself, out Aug. 4, and starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4764810/the-dark-tower-stephen-king-trailer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```