Stephen King Wants Dark Tower Sequel To Be Rated R

The Dark Tower

If Stephen King has his way , the nextDark Towermovie ( should it bechance ) will be Rated R. After about a decennium spent in exploitation hell , a motion-picture show adjustment of King ’s celebratedDark Towerseries of novels has lastly strike theaters . Boasting the star power of Idris Elba as heroic gunslinger Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the malevolent Man in Black , many King fans hoped that director Nikolaj Arcel would deliver them a worthy take on the informant material .

alas , signs so far point to that not being the case , asreviews forThe Dark Towerhave typically been bad so far , result in the film ’s paltry 17 % rating on Rotten tomatoes . While that ’s not quite as dismal as the grade recently received by the wide - pannedThe Emoji Movie , it ’s still hardly a number forThe Dark Towerto be gallant of . Still , there ’s a chance that moviegoers will oppose more positively to the moving-picture show , which is still currently expected totop the domestic boxful officethis weekend , despite the critical choler .

For his part , King has had nothing but positive affair to say aboutThe Dark Tower’sfilm version , although it certainly would n’t be the first fourth dimension King ’s legal opinion of a film free-base on his piece of work has differed with either critical or fan opinion . One need only commend King ’s noted disfavor for Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shiningfor proof . Still , King tellsCinema Blendthat he does have one request that he would really care to see fulfilled by a potentialDark Tower 2 : make it R - rate this clock time instead of PG-13 . His logical thinking is as follows .

" I understand the principle behind the film that is PG-13 . I was wholly signed off on that . I want as many people in the tent as possible , for all kinds of reasons . Part of it get to do with the dynamic between the Gunslinger and the son . That ’s a father - son relationship . But I ’d love to see the next delineation be R. That ’s sort of where we ’re derive from now , and where the movie need to go . PG-13 was the safe spot to go . When pictures were R , the studio apartment EXEC would say , ' Well , we know that this is going to make 20 % or 30 % less money because we ’re go to chuck out a prime tenderloin part of the moviegoing world . ' I recall that movie ’s like Deadpool have changed that . "

Anyone familiar with King’sDark Towerbooks is well mindful that the series incorporate rafts of material that would be very hard to reproduce dependably under the restrictions of a PG-13 military rating , so the author ’s desire to see future film go R - betray is dead intelligible . Still , as influential as King is in Hollywood , one wonders if studio Sony Pictures would ultimately be willing to take the danger . Sure , Deadpoolbroke newfangled solid ground for the fiscal success of R - rated movies , but that does n’t imply every R - rated smash hit is now going to be a hit on that level .

Of course , this is strike that Sony even makes moreDark Towermovies . While the upcoming companion television set serial publication still seems to be a go - at least for now - it does n’t look likeDark Towerwill terminate up being a staggeringly profitable moving picture , at least based on its projected domestic opening gross of around $ 20 million . The only matter keepingDark Tower’sfinancial prognosis from reckon too big is that it only cost $ 60 million to make . Still , most studio movies take to at least double their budget just to break even after marketing monetary value , much less turn a profit . In that obedience , King may very well be getting onward of himself , unlessDark Toweris a bang overseas .