Watch Idris Elba In Action In This First Official Trailer For The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower has been describe by Matthew McConaughey as dark tale of Christianity, one that spins a mythic battle between good and evil on an epic, mind-bending scale.

The Dark Tower itself, the looming, monolithic structure and nexus of time that soon becomes a point of fixation for Idris Elba’s Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, as he begins his quest through Mid-World and beyond alongside a mysterious young boy known as Jake Chambers. Both characters were ushered into the spotlight just yesterday via a trio of motion posters, and today, Sony has lifted the curtain on the one promo that has kept the Internet on tenterhooks ever since the unfinished cut leaked online late last year: The Dark Tower‘s inaugural trailer.

The Dark Tower will finally be with us on August 4th.