Easter Eggs In The Dark Tower Movie

Roland found a Rita Hayworth poster. The poster showed the same image used to cover Andy Dufresne's escape route in The Shawshank Redemption.The Shawshank Redemption.

A shop sign with Barlow and Straker's appears in the background. This references the two main characters and the antique shop they own in the novel.'Salem's Lot.

A street scene shows both a Saint Bernard dog resembling Cujo and a blond woman resembling Donna in the background.

Jakes friend Timmy plays with a toy car. The car looks like a red 1958 Plymouth Fury. This car becomes the jealous, homicidal focus.Christine.

An abandoned circus structure in Mid-World displays the name "Pennywise." Balloons float nearby, referencing the Dancing Clown from IT.ITIt uses the creepy catchphrase "we all float down here."The Dark TowerThe Dark Tower came out a couple of months before 2017.ItIt released, so the two projects were likely in production together.

One inter-dimensional portal Jake and Roland use has the code "1408" written on top. This references King's short story of the same name, where a man stays in room 1408 of a hotel and finds out how cursed it is.

In King's novel Misery, Paul Sheldon wrote this book. It enrages Annie Wilkes so much that she kidnaps and tortures him, forcing him to write a new story she prefers.

The therapist Jake visits is near the very beginning of the movie.The beginning of the movieA framed picture of the Overlook Hotel sits on one of his tables.The Shining)

When Roland sees a commercial with talking raccoons on TV while in a hospital on Earth, he asks Jake if animals can still talk here. In the novels, Jake and Roland bond with a talking animal named Oy, which looks like a raccoon and becomes a main character.

Graffiti reading "All Hail The Crimson King" shows up in several key shots. This calls back to the bigger plan in The Dark Tower novels.The Dark TowerWalter (The Man in Black) and Roland fight; they are soldiers in the big war between good and evil, where the Crimson King acts as a Satan-like villain.

This Easter egg points to a couple of things. First, the character Randall Flagg from The Stand.The Stand He wears a smiley face pin on his jacket. Randall Flagg is another alias for The Man in Black. This could also point to the smiley face Mr. Mercedes used as a calling card in the Bill Hodges Trilogy.

In The Dark Tower books, Jake's psychic powers are called "the touch." In the movie, they are briefly called Jake's "shine." This means he shares the same psychic abilities as Danny in The Shining.The Shining

Jake faces shape-shifting monsters throughout the film. One takes the form of a strange man in a yellow coat trying to kidnap Jake. King's novella Low Men in Yellow Coats is closely linked to this.Low Men in Yellow CoatsThis is closely tied to the Dark TowerThe Low Men are agents of the Crimson King. They also conduct kidnappings.

Jake wanders these cornfields during a scene.Children of the Corn appears in the list of Easter Eggs in The Dark Tower Movie.shows imagery.

Roland plays with this tarantula during his explanation of the Stephen King multiverse to Jake. This happens inThe Dark Tower features the Eight-legged Freak.Roland becomes the father of a half-spider son named Mordred in the novels.It is the Eight-legged Freak.One form Pennywaise takes is a giant spider.

These twin girls in blue dresses look like the Grady twins fromThe Shining is the Seeing Double.