Doug Liman Will Try and Cram Stephen King’s ...

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 sequence following within the footsteps of the 1994 and 2020 versions, this can be as an alternative be a function 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 rely of 1,152. It is going to immediately change into one of many hottest writing assignments on the town.”

To not point out probably the most nerve-racking writing assignments in current reminiscence, contemplating “sources say that Liman and the studio have a selected take and that the function 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 appears like a probably difficult 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 received’t be the primary filmmaker to aim to make The Stand right into a function. Maybe his “explicit take” will contain an strategy aside from making an attempt to compress your complete story right into a 2-hour film. That actually appears like the one method to go should you can’t unfold the story throughout a number of episodes. Garbage can Man origin story, maybe?

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