> Really putting the 'meh' in Mephariel, eh?

> Dark Tower and Geostorm have interesting parallels, and not
> just because both films bombed. The latter made Balfe Bruckheimer's go-to
> composer. The former is really the birth of Tom's 'adventures with
> orchestra'. It's not the first time he used Bear McCreary's orchestrators
> - they did some of the music prep on Black Mass and worked on
> Deadpool (lol) - but it's the first time you can hear them impact
> the sound in an symphonic fashion.

> In the late 2010s Tom was doing what Zimmer did in the early 1990s:
> working with collaborators who could gradually expand his orchestral
> chops. I'd argue we wouldn't have gotten to later stuff like Mortal
> Engines and Alita, which this community likes more, without
> Dark Tower serving as a trial run.

Yeah I think it is more of my bitterness because I was a huge fan of the books and they did absolutely the minimum to adapt it.