BBC推荐：8月必看的9部电影

3.《黑暗塔》（The Dark Tower）

Stephen King has been trying to adapt his seven-book Dark Tower series for the big screen for years. Finally, the approach he and rights-holders Sony Pictures settled on is not an adaptation at all but a continuation of the book series after the seventh book in the saga, released in 2004. Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, making his Hollywood debut, gets behind the camera for a movie that, like the books, follows a mysterious gunslinger named Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), his recruitment of a young boy named Jake (Tom Taylor), and a nemesis named The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). Deschain is trying to protect a dark tower that controls all reality – meaning that this film is 'going meta' and will link up directly with other Stephen King stories, each of which will exist in one of the realities protected by the dark tower. In an intriguing example of multi-platform storytelling, the movie, only 95 minutes, will then be followed a TV series starring Elba and Taylor that will air in 2018 and fill in some of the back story leading up to the film from the books. Released 3 August in Russia, 4 August in Canada and the US and 31 August in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
斯蒂芬•金多年来一直在尝试把他所著的七部《黑暗塔》小说改编成电影剧本搬上大银幕。不过最终，他和版权所有者索尼影业决定放弃改编这部长篇小说，转而接着最后一部拍摄续集。《黑暗塔》系列的第七本书已经在2004年出版发行。本片由丹麦导演尼柯莱•阿塞尔执导，这也是他的好莱坞处女作。影片内容和小说一样，将围绕神秘枪手罗兰•德鄯（伊德瑞斯•艾尔巴饰）、枪手雇佣的年轻男孩杰克（汤姆•泰勒）和复仇者黑衣人（马修•麦康纳饰）展开。影片中，德鄯设法保护一座控制着所有现实世界的黑暗塔，每一个现实世界都包含着斯蒂芬•金写过的一个故事。也就是说，这部电影是“总揽全局式”的，与斯蒂芬•金的其它作品有着直接联系。这是一个多平台叙事的有趣例子，影片只有95分钟，随后电视剧《黑暗塔》将于2018年推出，同样由艾尔巴和泰勒主演，里面会补充一些电影版的背景故事。影片已于8月3日登陆俄罗斯银幕，8月4日在加拿大和美国上映，并将于8月31日进入香港和台湾影院。