10 Movies That Turned Out Nothing Like You Were Expecting
6. The Dark Tower
Stephen King's mind-bending fantasy-horror-Western hybrid The Dark Tower had the potential to be cinema's next Lord of the Rings, if only it had been given the kind of careful treatment the fans were banking on.
There were claims the saga is unfilmable, but nobody was expecting its in-depth story and layered characters to arrive on screen stripped to their bare bones, an approach better suited to a PG-13 action blockbuster.
Sony Pictures and director Nikolaj Arcel made some bad calls during The Dark Tower's production, such as reducing the runtime to little more than an hour and a half and attempting to make a sequel to the books, rather than simply adapt them.
It ended up being a confusing, disjointed mess of a film that bore only a passing resemblance to King's beloved novels and it has probably killed Sony's ambitions to tell more stories in this universe.