Horror Doug Liman to direct Stephen King’s The Stand

[DarthSkywalker]

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Doug Liman to Tackle Stephen King Epic ‘The Stand’ for Paramount (Exclusive)

Liman is attached to direct the feature and will produce, along with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures.

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His magnum opus is The Dark Tower. You can't have multiple magnum opus.

 

[Sawyer]

Dark Tower is his magnum opus.

The Stand is his great American novel.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Look, they’ve done two miniseries now. One ok and one terrible. But they both lacked the budget to really pull it off.

If I can at least see the scale of this on the big screen, I’ll be happy. It needs to be two films, but maybe they can make The Stand an actual event ala IT.

Oh, and Tom Cruise for Randall Flagg. Pull out those connections Liman.

 

[Sawyer]

I won’t lie, Cruise Flagg occurred to me as well.

And since they did Road House together, maybe my long-standing fancast of Jake Gyllenhaal as Stu will come to pass.

 

[Sawyer]

If I can at least see the scale of this on the big screen, I’ll be happy. It needs to be two films, but maybe they can make The Stand an actual event ala IT.

I do kind of think post-apocalyptic storytelling on TV is in dire need of a rest for awhile. The Walking Dead has been at it for 15 years and still seems intent on dropping new episodes piecemeal in the form of a bunch of spin-offs and The Last of Us still has some steam in it, but beyond that… The Stand was five years ago and no one remembers it ever happened except King fans, that Y the Last Man adaptation happened and no one bothered with it except the comics fans.

At least on the big screen, the response might be a bit different.

 

[Sawyer]

Also seems worth noting that, at one point, IT was a “one-off” too, until it proved successful enough to warrant a follow-up, so I wonder if this is genuinely intended to be just one film or if this is just them hedging their bets.

 

[Fincher]

The first It actually indicated that it was the first chapter at the end credits. Also, the first It could function as a standalone. How do you make the starting movie of The Stand work as a standalone without major changes?

A higher film budget isn't nearly as important to me as the breathing room to tell the story.