Stephen King's Tweet Gave Fans A Sneak Peak On The Movie Adaptation Of 'The Dark World'

If you are a Stephen King fan, then you may have already heard that his multi-novel epic tale The Dark World will be on the big screen soon. Currently in production with director Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie will star Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and is slated for February 2017.

The project which was in development since 2007 with Ron Howard giving plans of making it a serialized, interwoven movie and television series was left with no one buying it. Indie Wire has reported Sony taking interest on the film, since the company had a "Dark Tower" slated to be released on February of 2017 which casted Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. However, fans still don't know how much of King's novel Dark World  will be included in the film. It is assumed that the movie would be an adaptation of the first novel, The Gunslinger, but it turns out the truth is much more interesting.

Stephen King and Nikolaj Arcel took some time from the Dark Tower production in Cape Town, South Africa to talk to Entertainment Weekly on podcast and King revealed that the story will "start the same," which plainly means that Idris Elba's Roland and newcomer Tom Taylor's Jake will start like at the beginning of The Gunslinger, but King said the story will jump ahead as well.

"I expect that the movie will start where the book starts," King explained. "You know, 'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed,' so I think that nails it right in place for people. I've been pretty insistent about that, and I think everybody's pretty on board with it." However, this might not an adaptation of The Gunslinger at all. King added: "It starts sort of the middle of the story rather than the beginning, which may upset some of the fans a little bit, but they'll get behind it because it is the story."

The Dark Tower is close, now. The Crimson King awaits. Soon Roland will raise the Horn of Eld. And blow. pic.twitter.com/rqGSKM3dWL

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 19, 2016

Stephen King's new tweet may have given fans a sneak peak of what could happen in the movie adaptation of his book which will mean that changes in the film version might coexist with the novel's narrative. Fans who love Dark Tower will recognize the Horn of Eld, and object that Roland kept as he was sent from the Dark Tower at the end of the book back to the beginning of his journey. Roland doesn't remember that he's chased the Man in Black before, the only evidence he lived through the novels is that he has the Horn of Eld, which he doesn't at the start of The Gunslinger, geek.com said.

Stephen King saying Roland will blow the horn paired with the phrase "Last Time Around" is exciting. In short, it means the events of the novel happened, then the movie happened.