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I doubt a lot of it is going to make sense with just the movie.

Overall, the Dark Tower is the centerpoint of all creation. With the existence of alternate realities, you can kind of just shove any book in there. This is usually the case with a lot of these. I remember Cell having a single reference to Charlie the Choo-Choo and nothing else, but that would be enough to connect it to the Dark Tower.

IT has a counterpart of sorts in the Turtle. A turtle is also one of the Beam Guardians. IT itself is quite similar to something called a todash monster (todash being the nothingness that exists between universes). Alternatively, IT's also quite similar to an emotional vampire named Dandelo that feeds on laughter instead of fear. Overall, IT (the book) generally has a lot of similar mythology to The Dark Tower.

Castle Rock was kind of The Dark Tower before there was a Dark Tower. There are a number of books which take place there and share continuity, Cujo being one of them. These eventually culminate in Needful Things. I don't remember any specific references, but I'm sure there were a few in one of them.

The fissure the plane passes through in The Langoliers is kiiiiind of similar to a thinny, but that's the only vague reference I remember.

The Crimson King is the main antagonist of the entire saga. A lot of the references in various books are vague allusions to him.

The monsters in The Mist seem even more like todash monsters than IT.

Mid-World and All-World are essentially the same thing. They're just the level of the Tower (ie, the dimension) that Roland is from.

In what is probably the weirdest thing in The Dark Tower series, Keystone Earth is our dimension. In the movie, I would assume this is just the world Jake comes from.

I left Randall Flagg for last because he's kind of a special case. Crimson King is the main antagonist of The Dark Tower, but Flagg is undeniably Stephen King's big bad. A lot of these connecting references are due to Flagg (or some other villainous asshole with RF initials) popping up in a story. The Stand is his most prominent role. I don't know if it's ever really explained, but my interpretation is that he has a lot of magical power that he uses to travel across dimensions solely to be a dick. The Stand takes place before the Dark Tower, but time is kind of wonky in the story.

Anything I didn't mention I don't remember a specific reference. It's worth noting that sometimes there aren't references to The Dark Tower specifically, King likes dropping more mundane ones too. The protagonist of Tommyknockers is a western writer who is mentioned in at least one other book. A minor character in Rose Madder becomes a major one in Desperation. The Shop, the main antagonist group in Firestarter, is mentioned as being one of the candidates to deal with the superflu leak in The Stand. etc

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