8 Reasons We’ve Lost Faith In The Dark Tower

8. The Tower Is Inaccessible For Newcomers

So here's the problem with making a sort-of sequel to a 4,250-page epic - it requires the audience to have done more than a bit of light background reading beforehand.

Whatever the quality of the end product, anyone who hasn't done their homework will, at best, get less out of The Dark Tower than the initiated, and at worst leave with their brains scrambled and WTF written all over their faces.

Try explaining to a newcomer about that mysterious horn in Roland's possession and watch them stare at you more vacantly than a lobotomised Love Island contestant.

This wouldn't be an issue if Sony had gone for a straight adaptation of Stephen King's work - it didn't do Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings any harm, did it?

Those in the know will tell you that, although Dark Tower is technically a sequel, it's going to be treading similar ground to the books due to the cyclical nature of the story, but it still feels like the movie is banking on a lot of prior knowledge from cinemagoers.