The Dark Tower Leaked Trailer: 10 Things We Learned
4. It's Trying To Appeal To The Young Adult Crowd
This shouldn't be massively surprising, but the leaked trailer nevertheless makes it abundantly clear: The Dark Tower is trying to tap in to the ever-lucrative Young Adult market.
That is, of course, the main reason why the movie is to be rated PG-13 rather than R, because given how easily the filmmakers have been able to massage a familiar teen adventure movie set-up onto King's source material, it would be foolish (financially speaking, anyway) to go in any other direction.
This does unfortunately mean that, so far, The Dark Tower is looking a great deal more generic and formulaic than fans may want. It is entirely possible, of course, that the marketing could simply be leaning into this similarity to draw in the teens: it would make a lot of sense if they want to have their cake and eat it too.