It’s been a comparatively quiet 12 months for each Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, neither of whom has appeared in additional than a cameo position in a live-action film in 2024. Whereas that isn’t going to vary within the subsequent month and a half, considered one of their team-up films that’s now seven years previous has lastly secured a brand new streaming dwelling after presently solely having the ability to lease or buy on Prime Video. Elba and McConaughey star in The Dark Tower, the sci-fi western/darkish fantasy motion thriller that may arrive on Netflix on December 1. Along with Elba and McConaughey, The Darkish Tower additionally stars Tom Taylor and Dennis Haysbert and the movie presently sits a 16% rating from critics and a 44% ranking from normal audiences on the mixture web site Rotten Tomatoes.
Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinker, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Nikolaj Arcel all labored collectively to pen the screenplay for The Darkish Tower, which relies on the collection of novels of the identical identify by legendary writer Stephen King. Arcel additionally directed the movie, which he labored on 5 years after A Royal Affair, the 2012 interval drama starring Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen. He reunited with Mikkelsen final 12 months on The Promised Land, the historic epic detailing the lifetime of Danish soldier Ludvid Kahlen. Arcell can be hooked up to direct The Monster of Florence, the upcoming crime thriller starring Antonio Banderas. The newest of King’s work to obtain a live-action adaptation is Salem’s Lot, the horror movie streaming on Max that premiered to tough critiques of 45% from critics and 39% from normal audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
One other Iconic Stephen King Adaptation Is within the Works
Simply over one 12 months from immediately, one other Stephen King adaptation that includes a star-studded forged will premiere in theaters around the globe. Glen Powell has been tapped to steer The Operating Man, the remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie which relies on King’s novel. The Running Man will premiere exclusively in theaters on November 21 and also will star Josh Brolin, Lee Tempo, Katy O’Brian, William H. Macy, Emilia Jones, Michael Cera, Karl Glusman, Jayme Lawson, Daniel Ezra, and Tom Mackley.
The Darkish Tower stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and was written by Akiva Goldsman and directed by Nikolaj Arcel. Keep tuned to Collider for future streaming updates and watch The Darkish Tower when it premieres on Netflix on December 1.
The Darkish Tower
A boy haunted by visions of a darkish tower from a parallel actuality groups up with the tower’s disillusioned guardian to cease an evil warlock often called the Man in Black who plans to make use of the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
