Fans anxious about Stephen King's new adaptation 'The Dark Tower'

CAIRO – 19 July 2017: Sony's upcoming movie adaptation of horror writer Stephen King's sprawling epic 'The Dark Tower' has already faced concern from fans online, particularly over the film's runtime slated for a release next month.

The film stars Idris Elba as gunslinger Roland on a quest to stop a 'The Man In Black', played by Matthew McConaughey from reaching the titular Dark Tower. Roland is joined by a young boy, portrayed by Tom Taylor.

Infamous for being hard to get to and massively complicated in plotline, fans of the bookseries fear that the film's 95 minute runtime will be inadequate in order to properly adapt the series.

Remember how The Dark Tower was such a massive epic it took years to wrangle to the screen?

The run time is confirmed as 94 mins.

— Mathew Buck (@FB_BMB) July 17, 2017

Other fans have faced concern that the film's poor marketing might lead it to becoming a flop, common with ambitious adaptations of epic novels.

The Dark Tower has been so poorly marketed. Will most definitely be a box office flop

— Colin M. (@duckisgod) July 10, 2017