Connections

I'm a huge Stephen King fan and I love film as well. I started noticing certain connections between a certain trilogy and Mr. King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower. . The framework for both pieces of art is derived from Mr. Joseph Cambell's most famous book, Hero of A Thousand Faces. The same is said of the first Star Wars film.
I'll start with the Dark Tower and just some basic things it delves into.

• The King Arthur Myths and Legends
• Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
• The Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone (Especially The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
• Clifford D. Simak's Ring around the Sun. Great book if you can find it.
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Star Wars
• Harry Potter
• Marvel Comics
• The Searchers/Tombstone/Unforgiven
• Akir Kurasawa's The Seven Samurai
• Redemption & Cycles
• Hindu Mythology
• Eastern Philosophy
• The Wizard of Oz
• Pride and Vanity

That's what I got so far. I'll go into each one in detail later.