Diamond Select Toys has officially released over twenty statues and toys of the upcoming movie, “The Dark Tower,” based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Several photographs of the newly released toys and statues are uploaded on the official Twitter. One of the statues is 7-foot long Gunslinger (Idris Elba), and the other is 6-foot tall Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), depicting the two in intense mode.
The toys have come with diorama backdrops and eye-catching accessories. It has been reported that soon Diamond Select Toys will release Gallery PVC figures of Idris and Matthew characters.
‘The Dark Tower’ – 2017 movie
“The Dark Tower” is a highly-anticipated Hollywood movie by Nikolaj Arcel. In addition to Elba and McConaughey, the film features Tom Taylor, Fran Kranz, Michael Barbieri, Jackie Earle Haley, Katheryn Winnick, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Claudia Kim, Alex McGregor, Jose Zuniga, De-Wet Nagel, Nicholas Hamilton, and Dennis Haysbert.
The first installment combined elements from various comic books and novels.
The film will be released on August 4, 2017, in IMAX 3D by Columbia Pictures. The story revolves around a young boy, Jake, who discovers clues about a new dimension named as Mid-World.
Upon following the mysteries, he gets spirited away to an unknown place where he encounters various problems. Here, he meets a young woman, Roland Deschain, who is eager to reach the point between space and time.
Follow-up television show
In January 2017, Entertainment Weekly reported that a television series set in the same continuity is scheduled for 2019. Both Taylor and Elba will reprise their roles as Jake and Roland, respectively.
The sitcom will potentially fill in the backstory to the movie, based on King's previous blockbuster, “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass.”
It creates and distributes licensed pop figures, statues, and toys. So far, it has produced vinyl figures for movies like “Star Wars,” “Transformers,” “Halo,” “Ghostbusters,” “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero,” “Indiana Jones 3,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Back to the Future,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” and others.