Horror Doug Liman to direct Stephen King’s The Stand

[Xtroid]

This better not be in the new version.

 

[Sawyer]

A red X?

 

[Xtroid]

How about now?

 

[Sawyer]

The new trailer for Super 8 makes me wish JJ Abrams wasn't under contract with Paramount. He would do amazing on this.

 

[Spartanite]

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Can somebody tell me exactly how the TV version was toned down? In what ways? I never read the book.

 

[Sawyer]

Watching The Green Mile. To hell with The Walking Dead or whatever film commitments he may have right now, Darabont needs to direct this. He HAS to!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Watching The Green Mile. To hell with The Walking Dead or whatever film commitments he may have right now, Darabont needs to direct this. He HAS to!

Right after he does The Long Walk.

 

[Sawyer]

He could save that for afterward. Cant risk him missing out on this and getting some **** director in his place. The Long Walk will always be there. No one else is rushing to make that thing.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

*shrugs* I was mostly joking but whatever. If he's already committed to other stuff then you're either waiting or getting someone else anyway.

 

[The Sarge]

Guy Peirce would be a good choice for Flagg.

My personal pick would be Christian Camargo, aka the ice truck killer.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Ah, the ice truck killer. He would make a cool Flagg. Pierce would also be good, though I think I'd rather see him play Stu or one of the other hero characters.

 

[Sawyer]

I think whoever ends up directing this has alot to learn from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of King's inspirations in writing the novel was Tolkien's trilogy, and I think that should translate from the literary versions to the film versions. The Stand should have that same grand scale that Jackson's trilogy had.

America = Middle Earth

 

[redhawk23]

for sure, that is a very good way of looking at.

 

[Crockett]

I'm more than halfway through the book and damn it's good. If they do a adaptation of this, it would be just fantastic.

 

[kvz5]

The Gary Sinise version is on the SfFy channel right now.

 

[Sawyer]

That entire miniseries only touched on perfection once, and that was during the opening "Don't Fear the Reaper" sequence. The rest was...... subpar.

 

[Eddie Dean]

The series is up on Netflix Instant too.

 

[Xtroid]

That entire miniseries only touched on perfection once, and that was during the opening "Don't Fear the Reaper" sequence. The rest was...... subpar.

Six hours of my life that I will never get back.

 

[Sawyer]

Okay, so.... casting.

Let's take this one at a time, shall we? And let's start with Mother Abigail:

I'm thinking Alfre Woodard. Sure, they'd have to age her, but that's no big deal. Age should be secondary to acting ability. It's not like they're going to be putting out a casting call for 108 year olds.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Irma Hall.

 

[Solidus]

Can somebody tell me exactly how the TV version was toned down? In what ways? I never read the book.

Well the TV version was just bad on so many levels. Too many. It was cheesy as hell, and looked like it. And as my quote below Sawyer is right, this film needs an epic feel to it. There really is no epic battles, but the landscape of America needs to be captured, and some of the descriptions King gives of it is wonderful.

As for toned down, the corpses and the plague was much more devastating to people then what the TV show showed. As well as a lot of gore and destruction by Flagg in his "various forums" the whole entire scene with The Kid is some what sexual, and pretty bloody by the end. Lets just say its a King book, things are explained in much more graphic detail. There was lot more sex and gore is really what I should sum that up as lol. And much more swearing.

But the TV series was terrible. Ya Gary was decent in it but I think he was not given much. Just cheap is the word I think of when I think of the TV series. Read the book. Much better.

I think whoever ends up directing this has alot to learn from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of King's inspirations in writing the novel was Tolkien's trilogy, and I think that should translate from the literary versions to the film versions. The Stand should have that same grand scale that Jackson's trilogy had.

America = Middle Earth

Ya, I was thinking about this. I just re-read the book in the past few months, and just put it down. Thinking about a lot of things they should do.

They need to show massive landscapes, I still love how King has such a way with words on describing sunsets, the stars and so forth. However this film will not be "epic" like LOTR. I mean there really is no massive battles. The most CGI/SFX will be that of cities post plague and Flagg himself, well and the ending. But other than that I don't think there will be massive epic battle scenes like some believe there would be in a film like this.

But they do need to grab the epic scope.

As for casting, I'm more wondering who they could get to play Harold and Larry. Those two were terrible in the TV series (well they all were) but I felt they were misrepresented on screen really bad. But yea Sawyer I would love to talk casting of this film after just finishing the book again.

I think Jake Gyllenhaal would be a good Stu as King said. I actually would like to see that. As for Fran, I always imagined Natalie Portman for some reason. Even though she is really popular right now again, I just always felt she could portray a strong yet fragile woman like Fran.

With Flagg, I keep imagining Guy Pearce for some reason. I think he would play a great one. Speaking of Flagg though I think they really need to play more on the darkness of his face, and how it almost "shifts". Don't use the wardrobe of from the TV series. I would chose dark jeans, and a duster for him most of the time. But I would like to see him in the priest robes that some claim to see him in. And of course lets see more wolves. But I think Guy Pearce would have the "smile" that I always imagine Flagg to have.

For Glen, I imagine Stanley Tuuci oddly enough, I just guess the "Bald" thing in the book always gets me thinking that.

Ralph I imagined as David Morse, he seems friendly and nice, and just has that persona I imagined Ralph to have, the nice guy that is always there.

I always thought of Steve Buscemii as the Trashcan Man.

Other than that I have not really thought of a good cast for, Larry, Nick, Harold, and Tom they stump me the most. M-O-O-N that spells stumped.

 

[Sawyer]

Portman would be okay, but if Gyllenhaal was to be Stu (which I support 100%), the actress playing Frannie would have to be quite a bit younger. Frannie's supposed to be in college, so I'd say someone in the 18-22 age range (Jennifer Lawrence, perhaps?).

Larry, I believe, is supposed to be in his twenties or so, so I'd probably place him somewhere between Stu and Frannie, age-wise.

Portman, actually, wouldn't be a bad choice for Nadine Cross.

 

[Sawyer]

Also, he's not exactly a major character, but I couldn't help but hear Morgan Freeman's voice in my head when reading about Judge Ferris.

 

[Crockett]

I think Joseph-Gordon Levitt would be a good choice for Nick, Harold, um Jonah Hill perhaps? Gyllenhaal wouldn't be a bad choice for Stu, I kept thinking Josh Brolin for the role when I read the book though. My choice for Fran is Carey Mulligan for the role. There's quite a few actors that would do good as Randall Flagg, Gary Oldman or Viggo Mortensen for an example, my choice is Josh Holloway, maybe it's because I think it would be interesting to see Holloway as a villain. He would be old but I think he would be good as Larry also.

Darabont should be the director definitely, no one does a good adaptation of a Stephen King book as him. On another note I haven't seen the mini-series, I am curious though, maybe one day.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Mmmm... yes, give me more Carey Mulligan. As Fran or any character, I don't care. I could watch her in anything.