10 Movies That WASTED Villains From Their Source Material
3. Walter Padick/Randall Flagg - The Dark Tower
It was a cause for much excitement when it was announced that Stephen King's Dark Tower series would finally be getting the movie treatment.
While possibly not his most famous work, the Dark Tower book series is something of a favourite among King's fans, and hopes were high for the 2017 adaptation of the series.
The decision to use the entire eight book series as inspiration for the film was a risky one. Instead of using the stories that King had already written, the studio instead decided to take the foundation he had set and build upon it.
While it was an admirable goal, there was no real way to translate the series' villain onto the big screen.
In King's books, the character of Randall Flagg - or many variations thereof, in his numerous forms - is one that appears in all manner of places.
The epitome of evil, Flagg (or Walter Padick, as he goes by in The Dark Tower) simply contained too much backstory to be contained in one movie, and much like everything else in the title, it failed to capture the nature and essence of King's fantasy series.