The Trailer for ‘The Dark Tower’ Starring Idris Elba Is Here and It’s Epic [Watch]

“You can’t stop what’s coming.”

Matthew McConaughey must be a prophet because with two heavily anticipated films hitting the box office, Stephen King is once again putting theaters in a vice grip.

After many years of rumors, dead-ends and dashed hopes, the first film adaption of The Dark Tower is finally on its way and to solidify the upcoming release,  Columbia Pictures released the three-minute trailer to sink our teeth into.

In the clip above Jake Chambers,  playing the young character “Tom Taylor”, discovers a gateway into another world where he finds himself literally in the middle of a fight to save the entire universe — held together by a mysterious structure known as the Dark Tower — from imminent collapse.

Idris Elba plays gunslinger “Roland Deschain”, who’s mortal enemy the “Man in Black” played by McConaughey is trying destroy the world.

The Dark Tower is a sprawling series of seven novels written between 1982 and 2004.  The first four books were published every four to six years. But after King was hit by a minivan in 1999 and almost died, he decided to finish the saga lest another accident finishes the job. The final three books were published in 2003 and 2004.

Characters from the Dark Tower books have frequently appeared in other stories by Mr. King, one of the series villains is also the main antagonist of  The Stand, and vice versa, effectively making the series the backbone of the author’s oeuvre. Mr. King himself also makes an appearance in the novels, which still comes as a surprise even if you know about it beforehand.

The Dark Tower hits theaters Aug. 4. Check out the trailer below.

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