WATCH: First Trailer For Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’

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The trailer for The Dark Tower has just been released!

This is the first official look at the highly anticipated theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King series.

Idris Elba stars as Roland Deschain, aka “The Gunslinger” who takes a young boy, played by Tom Taylor, under his wing in the fight against Matthew McConaughey’s Walter Padick, aka “The Man in Black.”

In a voiceover at the beginning of the trailer Idris explains, “For thousands of generations the gunslingers were knights sworn to protect us from the coming of the dark.” Take a look!

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The Dark Tower will hit theaters on August 4th.