GameSpot Universe got the chance to catch up with The Dark Tower director Nik Arcel last weekend during San Diego Comic-Con 2017. Click here for some excerpts, or check out the full transcript below. The Dark Tower hits theaters August 4.Dark Tower fans have been into the series for so long, and we`re in this age where fans rule the world. I think another director in your spot would maybe be afraid of making these fans mad or doing the wrong thing, but it seems like you`re as big a fan as they are. How has that changed your approach?Oh yeah. So when you say `the fans,` I`m always like `You mean me!` Listen, I`m not saying it wasn`t a daunting task, and I`m not saying I`m not really wanting to please these people, because I`m one of them. Like, I really want the fans to be happy because I feel so much like I`m part of that community. If I hadn`t directed this film I would be on online right now going, `Where`s Eddie and Susannah? Who`s that? What the hell`s going on?!` Like, I would be so nervous, really. So I know exactly how they`re feeling. But that`s why I feel comfortable, in a way, because I know that we are true in our hearts and that we actually did everything we could.I`m not the only fan [working on the movie]. Like, the head of the financing company is a huge Dark Tower fan. Ron Howard, the producers, everybody who`s involved is somebody who really can talk it out about the Dark Tower lore. We have all these philosophical discussions about like, what does this mean, and this thing that happens in book 5--so I actually feel quite comfortable that at least we did whatever we could to both feel that we were true to the novels, but also invite everybody who hadn`t read the novels into this universe.I know it`s been through a lot of iterations over the years. As a fan, how did you feel when the decision was made to make it a new story rather than a more straightforward adaptation of the books?Actually, that was a cool thing. When I got onboard there was alr ...
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