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It's looking like the Dark Tower movie is finally going to get made — and with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in the leading roles, no less. That means its time to actually find out what Steven King's mextatextual epic fantasy/western is actually about.
Who is the Gunslinger? Who is the Man in Black? Guest Dave Tach explains.
Topics include:
- Susana and Julia don't know anything about The Dark Tower
- Except Susana listens to a German metal band that has a song about it
- How mainstream media is starting to get saturated by certain settings — like comic book superhero universes — that like to play with the idea of characters who know that they're characters
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