The Dark Tower Movie: 5 Biggest Mistakes It's Already Made

5. The Tone Is All Wrong

We're not going to deny that it's all kinds of awesome watching Idris Elba draw and fire his guns in Matrix-esque slow motion.

It is, obviously - but Dark Tower's trailers are tonally closer to a superhero blockbuster than the weird Western-fantasy-horror hybrid Stephen King spent a lifetime crafting.

To do the books justice, Dark Tower should be, well, dark. A grittier Lord of the Rings with strong elements of horror and gunfights straight out of a Spaghetti Western.

Instead, Roland's firearm capabilities are showcased like some kind of superpower and every minute footage so far smacks of PG-13-rated action-blockbuster.

Where's the weirdness, where's the surrealism? The Western influences? What we could have on our hands here is a watered-down Dark Tower, a simplified battle between good and evil where there's no room for grey morality.

A film that's forgotten the face of its father? Let's hope not.