History Trivia / TheDarkTower2017

** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[Disney/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.

** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcconaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.

** A year before this movie came out, MatthewMcconaughey played in KuboAndTheTwoStrings, where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.

** Only last year, MatthewMcconaughey played in KuboAndTheTwoStrings, where he was a different kind of "man in black".

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $60 million. Box office, $28,730,764 (domestic so far), $36,976,002 (worldwide so far).

* ActorAllusion: It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate {{Dollhouse}} reference.
** When [[IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.

* WhatCoulddHaveBeen:

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $60 million. Box office, $28,730,764 (domestic so far), $36,976,002 (worldwide so far).

** Roland compares The Man in Black negatively to the Devil.

* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history such as it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015, though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy which in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailers for the film feature several scenes that do not make it to actual movie itself:

* NotScreenedForCritics: In the week before the film was released, no critics seemed to know anything about it that didn't come from the trailers, and as it turned out, the film got an 18% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
** Though the audience reviews are somewhere in the 65% range, so even if critics don't seem to care for it, average moviegoers seem to.

* NotScreenedForCritics: In the week before the film was released, no critics seemed to know anything about it that didn't come from the trailers and as it turned out, the film got an 18% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

* NotScreenedForCritics: In the week before the film was released, no critics seemed to know anything about it that didn't come from the trailers and as it turned out, the film got a 19% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history such as it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015, though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy which in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character, which also explains why the film ended up [[InNameOnly resembling very little to the source material]].

* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history such as it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015, though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy which in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.

* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history such as it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015,
though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy which in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.

* TroubledProduction:
Where to begin? The film had a ten-year complicated development history such as it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015,

* NotScreenedForCritics: In the week before the film was released, no critics seemed to know anything about it that didnt come from the trailers.
%% * TroubledProduction: [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ Very much so]].

* NotScreenedForCritics: in the week before the film was released, no critics seemed to know anything about it that didnt come from the trailers.

%% * TroubledProduction: [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ Very much so]].

* TroubledProduction: [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ Very much so]].