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You can't stop what's coming. Death always wins.
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~ Flagg taunting Roland Deschain.
Walter Padick, better known as Randall Flagg, is the main antagonist of the 2017 film, The Dark Tower, itself an adaptation of Stephen King's epic fantasy book series of the same name. He is an evil sorcerer who plans to destroy the Dark Tower (which holds up the multiverse) so he may bring forth the apocalypse.
Randall Flagg, or better known as "Walter O'Dim" and "The Man in Black", is described as an immensely powerful sorcerer who cares about nothing but himself as well as caring about bringing forth the apocalypse as he is intends to destroy the Dark Tower, which holds up the multiverse, and rule over the other worlds as well. From start to finish, he is depicted as nothing but a ruthless, heartless, cold-hearted, sadistic, egotistical and cataclysmic person, though this was what eventually led to his well-deserved death in the end thanks to both Roland Deschain, the last of the Gunslingers whom Walter had killed, and Jake Chambers foiling his plans.
Biography[]
Sometime before the events of the film, Randall Flagg, who goes by his aliases "Walter O'Dim" and "The Man in Black", killed all of the Gunslingers, and then during the events of the film, he killed the father of the last of the Gunslingers, Roland Deschain, by telling him to stop breathing. However, Walter's powers did not work on Roland since Roland was born with a special gift that can deflect demonic powers.
When Walter found out that a teenaged boy named Jake Chambers was psychic, he sought to find the boy and use him (as he had other children with said gift) to destroy the Dark Tower and rule over the other worlds. The process of using the children to harness the energy of the Dark Tower often left them drained, much to Walter's indifference. In the film, O'Dim kills Jake's stepfather and mother by telling his stepfather to drop dead. He later incinerates Jake's mom Laurie. About 10 minutes into the film, Jake returns back to Earth to find his dead stepfather on the floor and his mom's ashes on the floor and breaks down. Walter is able to abduct Jake by confusing Roland via talking to him. Walter taunts Roland by telling him about his dad and how he could have saved him. Roland is furious and tells Walter to face him.
Jake is able to use his mind to help Roland find him. Roland kills all of Walter's men before confronting Walter himself. Walter and Roland have a brief fight with Roland shooting at Walter, who blocks the bullets with telekinesis. He picks up rocks and throws them at Roland, and as Roland ducks them and shoots some more bullets at Walter, Walter makes a trick and picks up some glass and throws it at Roland, a shard of glass becomes stuck in Roland's hand, and he hides behind a brick wall as Walter taunts him. Walter is able to throw an I-Beam on top of Roland and cover him with rocks, injuring him.
As Walter has a fireball in his hand and is going to kill Roland by burning him, Jake recites the Gunslinger's creed as Roland recovers and gets back to his feet. He shoots a bullet at Walter who is able to block it, however, he shoots another bullet that ricochets off the wall and hits Walter in the chest near the shoulder. Roland reloads his gun and shoots a confused Walter several times in the chest before shooting him in the head, finally killing him and ending his reign of terror for good. This, in turn, avenges the countless people and gunslingers whom Walter had killed, including Jake's mother, his stepfather and Roland's father.
Walter's body is briefly shown as he had a bullet hole in his head. The machine is finally destroyed along with Walter's corpse and the Dark Tower is finally saved at last.
Gallery[]
Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black in the 2017 film, The Dark Tower.
The death of the Man in Black in the 2017 The Dark Tower film.
Trivia[]
It was his commitment to play Randall Flagg in The Dark Tower that led Matthew McCounaghey to turn down the offer to play Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
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