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

The world already feels prefer it’s on the point of doomsday, so we’d as properly gear up for one more 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 sequence following within the footsteps of the 1994 and 2020 versions, this might be as an alternative be a characteristic movie.

This information comes from the Hollywood Reporter, which notes that Liman is aboard to direct and produce, however “the venture 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 is going to immediately develop into one of many hottest writing assignments on the town.”

To not point out one of the disturbing 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 seems like a probably tough endeavor.

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

As THR factors out, Liman gained’t be the primary filmmaker to aim to make The Stand right into a characteristic. Maybe his “explicit take” will contain an method aside from making an attempt to compress all the story right into a 2-hour film. That basically seems 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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