Horror Doug Liman to direct Stephen King’s The Stand

[Eggyman]

tom hiddleston as randall flagg

No, not another villain. Nick, because he's got such an expressive face. He's got a sweet look about him that'd work for Nick.

 

[NosfeRomas]

David Morrissay,imo, would be an awesome Randall Flagg in either The Stand or The Dark Tower.

 

[childeroland]

Wentworth Miller for Flagg. If I remember right, Flagg in The Stand is supposed to be able to pass for either Caucasian or black. Not that that matters, of course, but it would be a nice nod, and he is a good actor.

 

[souvlaki]

The entire approach here is wrong, not even just the rating system. If it's a single movie, it won't work. It would be a summary of the real story. If it's a trilogy, it won't work. This isn't something like The Hobbit or some YA franchise like The Hunger Games. It's not all-ages friendly enough to get those big bucks to support spreading the love over three movies. Making it PG/PG13 wouldn't work, because... that's not what it ****ing is.

I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but...
HBO miniseries
HBO miniseries
HBO mutha****in' miniseries

This. To be honest I would even argue they could get two or three 12 episode seasons out of the Stand if they expanded on a few things.

 

[The Guard]

Still never read this. Writingwise, how does it compare to The Dark Tower?

 

[Victarion]

Overall I preferred The Dark Tower's writing style; the Dark Tower had better pacing. However there were a few chapters in The Stand that were better than The Dark Tower. But, since it was only a few chapters, I preferred The Dark Tower.

 

[Sawyer]

This. To be honest I would even argue they could get two or three 12 episode seasons out of the Stand if they expanded on a few things.

Eh. That seems like it could be overkill.

 

[MrMaooz]

Rumor: Warner Bros. Wants Paul Greengrass to Make ‘The Stand’

Briefly: The new feature film adaptation of Stephen King novel The Stand has been a difficult thing for Warner Bros. to get off the ground. Filmmakers such as Harry Potter duo David Yates and Steve Kloves; Ben Affleck; and Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper have all been attached to versions of the adaptation in the past couple years.

Now Badass Digest reports that the top choice at WB to take over the project is Paul Greengrass, who hit big this year with Captain Phillips.

That’s an interesting choice, because there are elements of The Stand — the destruction of humanity thanks to a viral outbreak, and some of the moral leapfrogging that takes place afterward among survivors — that seems perfectly suited for the director. And then there’s the fact that the story features two factions, led by a personification of evil and an old woman who talks to God, that really don’t seem like Greengrass elements at all.



The Stand is a severe story of good and evil created at a time when our cultural notions of morality were beginning to blur in a big way, thanks to the fallout of Vietnam and big political events of the ’70s, and it’s easy to envision a Greengrass version of the story where the lines between good and evil are far more vague than they are in either version of the novel.

(In its original 1978 publication the novel was about 400 pages shorter than King’s submitted manuscript; the cut material, along with revisions, was re-incorporated into an uncut publication in 1990. The uncut version is typically what one can buy new today.)

We know that Warner Bros. has been dithering over the number of movies to craft out of The Stand — one or two, maybe three? — and that there’s the desire for a PG-13 version rather than a hard-line adaptation that would fall into R territory. That also makes Greengrass seem like an odd choice. He seems more likely to fall on the R side of the equation, and not quite like the guy to make the by-the-numbers if slightly tamed adaptation that WB could want.

There’s no offer out to him now, so at this point this is primarily an interesting conversation.

http://www.slashfilm.com/rumor-warner-bros-wants-paul-greengrass-to-make-the-stand/

 

[terry78]

Lordy. Shaky cam in a desolate wasteland.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Matt Damon as Stu Redman?

 

[Sawyer]

HBO miniseries, or I cut a *****.

But Damon as Stu would be a good choice, yes.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fault-stars-director-talks-tackle-682033

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

 

[Rocketman]

We should start making bets on what we see in theaters first, this or Ghostbusters 3.

(I wouldn't bet, because I don't think we're getting either. I would believe that Kazaam 2 starring Shaq is happening first.)

 

[Sawyer]

Warner Bros. and CBS Films need to wise the **** up and realize that this thing is cable material, not summer blockbuster.

 

[HighFivingMF]

The incomparable Josh Boone. Big step up from Ben Affleck, Scott Cooper, and David Yates.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Yeah I'm pretty well convinced that this cannot be done with a movie at this point. Even a trilogy is pushing it.

But a cheapo miniseries is just as bad. Hopefully they'll throw some actual talent and cash at it.

 

[Sawyer]

LOL "cheapo miniseries", because I it's not as if I've been shouting for HBO since the moment Yates dropped out or anything.

 

[Rocketman]

Warner Bros. and CBS Films need to wise the **** up and realize that this thing is cable material, not summer blockbuster.

If they knowingly went into the project with a plan of making it a trilogy all filmed at once like The Hobbit, and gave it a similar tone as 28 Days Later, World War Z, The Road, and The Walking Dead, then I'm ALL FOR IT. (Minus zombies, obviously.)

But it appears that they just want to crank out a single 2-hour movie, and I suspect that that's why Ben Affleck, David Yates, and Paul Greengrass all walked away from it. Making a 2-hour movie is essentially cutting 80% of the material, and it's hard to even call it The Stand at that point.

Now, if the OTHER plan is to film a third of the book, make that a 2-hour movie, and cross their fingers that it makes a billion dollars in order to greenlight Part 2 and Part 3, I'll be EXTREMELY angry, because I don't want one-third of the book with no ending.

I say "Boo" to the whole project. Don't even bother making it. HBO won't be good enough for me personally, because I want a large film budget and not a TV budget. I want proper cinematography and real cameras being used, and A-list actors.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

LOL "cheapo miniseries", because I it's not as if I've been shouting for HBO since the moment Yates dropped out or anything.

Jesus Christ, did I say you didn't? I've been calling for the same thing for years. Chill.

Truth be know I was thinking about Under the Dome when I wrote that.

 

[Sawyer]

I say "Boo" to the whole project. Don't even bother making it. HBO won't be good enough for me personally, because I want a large film budget and not a TV budget. I want proper cinematography and real cameras being used, and A-list actors.

If HBO adapted The Stand to being even half as good as what they've given us with Game of Thrones, we would all be very, very lucky.

A big screen trilogy.... it'll never happen. For the same reason that ASOIAF was never made into films. It's not that kind of a story. It's not Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit or Harry Potter. So much of it is character, rather than plot or action, trying to treat it like one of those would be disastrous.

And turning it into a single 2-hour movie is idiotic for obvious reasons.

Jesus Christ, did I say you didn't? I've been calling for the same thing for years. Chill.

Truth be know I was thinking about Under the Dome when I wrote that.

GOOD!

 

[KevanG]

I saw the original when it came out on VHS. It was three tapes or so. To this day I can't listen to Don't fear the Reaper without picturing the movie.

 

[souvlaki]

If they knowingly went into the project with a plan of making it a trilogy all filmed at once like The Hobbit, and gave it a similar tone as 28 Days Later, World War Z, The Road, and The Walking Dead, then I'm ALL FOR IT. (Minus zombies, obviously.)

But it appears that they just want to crank out a single 2-hour movie, and I suspect that that's why Ben Affleck, David Yates, and Paul Greengrass all walked away from it. Making a 2-hour movie is essentially cutting 80% of the material, and it's hard to even call it The Stand at that point.

Now, if the OTHER plan is to film a third of the book, make that a 2-hour movie, and cross their fingers that it makes a billion dollars in order to greenlight Part 2 and Part 3, I'll be EXTREMELY angry, because I don't want one-third of the book with no ending.

I say "Boo" to the whole project. Don't even bother making it. HBO won't be good enough for me personally, because I want a large film budget and not a TV budget. I want proper cinematography and real cameras being used, and A-list actors.

True Detective, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones say hello. I'm getting the impression you've never actually seen an HBO show before. Hell, True Detective alone fulfills all three of your demands. As for big budgets, with big budgets come less risk and more studio control. If you've read the book you know this doesn't require any more special effects than your average episode of Walking Dead or GoT. Hire Cary Fukunaga to direct it (he's obviously a King fan considering he has been attached to It forever now), maybe even tap McConaughey for Stu, give them 8 to 12 episodes on HBO and I'm sure it would be better than anything WB would have produced if they turned it into a big budget film.

 

[Octoberist]

Rocketman, is it true? Is it true you've never seen True Detective, Game of Thrones, and Boardwalk Empire? They look like they're 100 budget films, with half the costs.

 

[:eek:]

Josh Boone Makes A Stand

Posted: March 27, 2014, 16:32:38
Section: Film » The Stand
Today I spoke to Josh Boone (who’s developing Lisey’s Story for the big screen) and he told me he’s been hired by Warner Bros. to write and direct a 3 hour, R-rated feature film version of The Stand. As we speak Josh is writing the script and no release date has been set yet.

 

[:eek:]

Nat Wolff is the First Actor to Board The Stand

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
May 7, 2014


Still in development through Warner Bros. and CBS Films as a big screen feature, Stephen King's The Stand adaptation appears to have landed its first bit of acting talent. The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that Nat Wolff, who stars in The Stand director Josh Boon's upcoming The Fault in Our Stars, is having a part specially written for him.

Previously adapted as a television miniseries in 1994, "The Stand" tells the story of a full-scale apocalypse, driven by the accidental release of a biological weapon and the ensuing struggle of good versus evil carried out by the world's final survivors.

Wolff also starred in Boone's 2012 feature, Stuck in Love, which featured a cameo by King.