8 Disturbing Stephen King Book Moments That Were Cut From The Films
1. The Dark Tower: Roland Drops Jake To His Death
A list of things from The Dark Tower that didn't make it into the movie could fill a tome almost as vast as the series itself.
Granted, the film was a half-baked sequel rather than an adaptation of the novels, but the story is cyclical in nature and covers some of the same ground, namely the first meeting between Roland Deschain and Jake Chambers.
The Gunslinger in the novels is a flawed hero to a greater extend than Idris Elba's cowboy-knight. This is best illustrated when he drops Jake into an abyss, sacrificing the child so he can continue on his quest towards the Dark Tower.
Roland learns he must fly solo to reach the mystical structure and his sheer obsession with doing so forces him to make a painful, tragic decision.
Nikolaj Arcel's adaptation neglected to drawn on the depth of the character or explore his darker elements, so this scene was excluded, not that dropping an innocent child to his doom would have gone down particular well with a mainstream audience.