10 Things Hollywood Must Get Right With The Dark Tower Movie

10. The Movie Needs To Acknowledge The Opening Line Of The First Book In A Big Way

"The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" is one of the best opening sentences to any fantasy novel ever, and the blunt, almost desperate prose style has come to define the "feel" of The Dark Tower series. It is also pretty much the most important sentence in all of the saga, essentially sums up the circular nature of the story. Constant Readers will also know that it - spoiler alert, just in case - serves as the final line of the very last book, too. As a result, the sentence serves as the epitome of the Dark Tower; it is the sum of Roland's life and his ultimate destiny, and - despite the fact that it is not spoken out loud as dialogue - the movie adaptation still needs to utilise it in some fashion. A suggestion, then: The Gunslinger opens with a black screen, the familiar sound of the wind blowing across a desert landscape, as the words "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed..." fade onto the screen. The sound of heavy breathing kicks in, and the movie cuts to Roland Deschain, moving relentlessly forward through the dust... The line is an majorly crucial part of the saga's mythology, so it really needs to be included in some capacity; to leave it out would be to miss the entire point of the books.