Doug Liman Will Try and Cram Stephen King’s Epic Novel ‘The Stand’ Right into a Single Film

The world already feels prefer it’s getting ready to doomsday, so we would as effectively gear up for an additional spherical of Captain Journeys. The Stand, Stephen King’s doorstop-sized 1978 post-apocalyptic novel, is getting a brand new adaptation from director Doug Liman—with a twist. As a substitute of one other collection following within the footsteps of the 1994 and 2020 versions, this shall be as a substitute be a characteristic movie.

This information comes from the Hollywood Reporter, which notes that Liman is aboard to direct and produce, however “the challenge will now head to writers to pen an adaptation of what’s King’s longest work, with a web page depend of 1,152. It would immediately turn into one of many hottest writing assignments on the town.”

To not point out one of the crucial anxious writing assignments in current reminiscence, contemplating “sources say that Liman and the studio have a selected take and that the characteristic could be a one-off, not a multi-movie endeavor.” Given The Stand‘s sprawling story, extraordinarily lengthy record of characters, and standing as a fan-favorite amongst King’s record of titles, that looks like a doubtlessly difficult endeavor.

The 2020 miniseries, which starred Alexander Skarsgård because the sinister Randall Flagg and Whoopi Goldberg as drive for good Mom Abagail, had the eerie synergy of arriving on the peak of the pandemic. It even had a new ending written by King himself.  However it finally left us underwhelmed and got here up brief in comparison with the sooner miniseries, to not point out the ebook itself.

As THR factors out, Liman gained’t be the primary filmmaker to try to make The Stand right into a characteristic. Maybe his “specific take” will contain an method apart from trying to compress your complete story right into a 2-hour film. That basically looks like the one strategy to go if you happen to can’t unfold the story throughout a number of episodes. Garbage can Man origin story, maybe?

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