Fans of Steven King's expansive fantasy "The Dark Tower" had a pretty harsh walk when it comes to screen adaptations, with only the movie (extremely subman) 2017, trying to tell the story of Gunslinger Roland Deshain and his epic trip. Now it seems to actually have streaming adaptation with the courtesy of Mike FlanaganWho directed King's stories well with "Doctor Sleep" and "Ericerald Game", "" with elements written by King himselfWhat is kind of sleep.

Since the "dark tower" connects a great deal of King's work on the printed page, there are some pretty great references to the novels "Dark Tower" in other King's adaptations, giving fans a little hope over the years we may have met with Roland, his tireAnd maybe even the Blaine train, that pain. Let's look at the five biggest references to the world of the "Dark Tower" in other films by Steven King (and mini-series), from quite obvious to a little bit.

In Frank Dardant's film adaptation in 2007 on King's novel "Fog", We see the protagonist of the film, David Drayton (Thomas Janein), working on impressive painting during the initial scenes. His studio has a number of beautiful paintings in it, including the title of Theon Carpenter in 1982 "The Thing" and Art for the film Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro, "Pan -Lavyrin", and in the background there is a painting of a young person who holds a red balloon. The image he works, however, is on Roland, dressed in his gun equipment and stands in front of a large metal door, with the dark tower in the far background ( Real The artist of the pictures we see on this scene is the legendary Druzen posters painter, by the way). But how would David know about Roland?

In the books "Dark Tower", King introduces the idea of "slim" or locations where reality is slightly blurred and people and objects of different worlds can appear in others. It is possible that the small town in Maine where the "fog" is taking place is close to a thin, or it may be David to be capable of inserting those realities through Dani Torance (and others) power in "glitter". It is also fully possible that the dating only wanted to give kiwi to other royal works. Whatever the case, art is serious and is a fun moment in different Total film bumper.

There are several links to the "Dark Tower" between King's novel "Shining" and its sequel, "Doctor Sleep", including the Gon -Visit Hotel with 19 steps from its lobby to the second floor - noticeable because 19 is a cosmic number in the connected multi -tower. Since writer and director Mike Flanagan is a huge fan of the "Dark Tower", he included references to his excellent film adaptation of "Doctor Sleep", including the number 19 of a young baseball player Bradley, Jerseyers, and a fun " Tower. " The industrial complex where Bradley is buried is also owned by the "wicked lamps industries" from "Dark Tower", and we can see posters for performances by an alternative identity of the "dark tower" monster Dandello in the background of one scene, but one line exceeds everyone when it comes to the most.

The biggest link on the screen between "Doctor Sleep" and the "Dark Tower" comes when the spirit of SEC Haloran (Carl Lumbi) speaks aloud, saying "Ka is a wheel". This is a direct line of the novels, which explains one of the largest driving forces in King's multiversity: It is the kind of force from the "war of the Starvali", in a very simplistic sense, because it ties all things together and pushes time forward. It is a fate, just as "Ka-Tet" are a group of heroes related to fate. (In the novel "Doctor Sleep", Danny refers to the group he collects to stop The actual node similar to a vampire As a ka-tt.) Flanagan said he could Include some of the characters from "Doctor Sleep" In his series "Dark Tower", and the track is sincerely already set up to happen.

There is a rather intensive connection between another courtesy of Steven King's adaptation to Mike Flanagan, and it is in his extremely frightening thriller "Ericerald Game". While both the novel and the film about "Eralairald's Game" have a direct relationship with King's novel "Dolores Klibron", because the two women can talk to each other through some telepathy (is it shining? Of course, it's pretty nasty to watch Essi (Carla Gugino) De-rakavica on the skin of his own hand in order to escape the handcuffs of handsBut something Her said by Ericerald (Bruce Greenwood) may be even worse, psychologically.

Flanagan himself emphasized the relationship in Interview with /film Back in 2017, saying:

"There is a really critical knot of the" dark tower "that is happening towards the end of the movie in a line that Bruce Greenwood tells Carla, which is" all things serving on the beam. "This was the one I really wanted to make sure we got there just because I was a" dark tower ".

But what does "all things serve on the beam" mean? In the "Dark Tower", it means that all universes and timelines are connected, and all serve the same greater purpose. Although it may not seem too daunting, it also means that the supernatural elements in the "Ericerald Game" are probably not in her mind, and has a very real mystical danger in every universe.

So, if "all things serve on the beam" and all timelines are connected, does that mean that all the world worldwide is connected? Some fans think so, but there are a bunch of clear relationships that you haven't really went to look for new ones. One of the biggest bad in all the royal orbus is Randall Flagg, the antagonist of his epic apocalyptic novel "Stand", which serves as a pretty great attitude to the Antichrist. Guided by Ameeimi Sheridan in the 1994 minisers and by Alexander Scarsgard in the 2020 limited series, Flagg is a truly frightening villain who has a lot of charm despite looking like every person. In the "Dark Tower", however, he is a friend of the friend/man in the black/Voltaire, one of the few antagonists working under an even worse villain, Circon King.

Flagg has a lot of people, even appears in King "The Shawshank Redemption", Making one of the few characters that weave through man's stories, rather than simply being loosely associated with them. "The stand" is one of King's best works, and as the "Dark Tower", the adaptations have not yet experienced the original material (even if Flanagan is the Fanubian of Dying Minisers in 1994). He is not the only monster linking King's works, however, because much more visually the unforgettable villain has his connections to the "dark tower".

There is one last movie by Big Steven King/The Dark Tower (not counting the real movie "The Dark Tower" of 2017, of course), though this is not as directly as any of the above. Remember Dandelo, changing the shape that appears on posters like an Easter egg in "Doctor Sleep"? Dandelo is the same kind of alien monster as the same, taking the frightening shape of Penichen, the dancing clown in King's novel in 1986 and its two adaptations on the screen. It, played by Tim Curry in the 1990 miniser, was Scarsgard in the films "IT" in 2017 and 2019 and "IT Chapter Two", has a real shape that is closer to a huge space spider, just like Dandello. They are from the same place and are therefore in the service of the beam, connecting "IT" and "The Dark Tower".

King said it was possible Flagg and it's actually one the sameAlthough it is likely that it means that they are only parts of the same evil, not actually an singular entity. Look, it's far from the strangest theory out there about King's work or even a penichent, because some fans have theorized that Mary Popins (yes, flying nanny with Disney's umbrella) is actually the same kind of being As well as Dandelo. Now That is wild. Maybe we'll get some new fun Easter eggs when Flanagan's series eventually debuted in the premiere video, but for now we have these delicious ties to move us.