Stephen King's "The Stand"

[Marvolo]

This seems...TOO SMART to be true.

It will probably get canned and thrown out the window like IT. Cause of its a smart idea Hollywood doesn't want anything to do with it.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, I'm not really sure how smart it is, I don't know how well taking a miniseries on a pay cable network and jumping it onto the big screen would turn out. I mean, it might have worked out for Sex and the City and will probably do okay for Entourage, but those two had years on the air to penetrate the pop culture zeitgeist. This will have been on for eight episodes. That's what's keeping me from really buying into this just yet.

I'd just much rather see ALL of it as a miniseries.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

IF done and successful this will be another way that TV and Movies are moving away from the dichotomy that both had for so long and showcases how both mediums are becoming similar at hyper speeds these days.

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2016/02/josh-bo...-the-stand-the-fault-in-our-stars-1201694681/

Of course. *walks off the edge of a cliff*

Then again, if this is how it goes down, it could be a good way to gauge how he'd do with The Stand.

 

[Doctor Jones]

It sounds like a personal project for him all things considering. I'm not surprised when stuff like this happens, but this sounds like it can be a pretty damn good movie on its own. It's not a bad approach. If anything The Stand being made could be dependent on this film's success. If he nails it then I think we got a good chance of actually seeing this thing.

 

[Marvolo]

http://deadline.com/2016/02/josh-bo...-the-stand-the-fault-in-our-stars-1201694681/

Of course. *walks off the edge of a cliff*

Then again, if this is how it goes down, it could be a good way to gauge how he'd do with The Stand.

Random as ****.

 

[Doctor Jones]

That's the film industry for you. They just like it to make it appear the opposite. This stuff happens all the time.

 

[titansupes]

Goddammit. I just read Revival a few weeks ago and was thinking "this might make a pretty neat movie..."

 

[Sawyer]

I haven't gotten to Revival yet. S***, I haven't even gotten around to finishing Doctor Sleep.

 

[Marvolo]

I haven't gotten to Revival yet. S***, I haven't even gotten around to finishing Doctor Sleep.

Doctor sleep is a good book. It would probably make a good film if it had good talent behind it.

I haven't read Revival or the Bill Hodges books yet. Probably going to skip Bazaar of Bad Dreams. The reviews aren't very encouraging.

 

[Galactus10]

It would be far less stressful to make Revival than The Stand. Both are intriguing stories but with much discrepancy in scope.

If I were a director, it would be a treat to take on Revival. The cast would have to be on point but it could be electric (pun intended)

 

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Producer Talks "The Stand" Film Plans

By Garth Franklin Friday February 19th 2016 12:49PM
At last report, filmmaker Josh Boone's adaptation of Stephen King's magnum opus "The Stand" was still stuck in development - one reason why he jumped over to another King adaptation, "Revival," as his immediate next project before getting back around to "The Stand" at a later date.
So where is "The Stand" right now whilst Boone is occupied elsewhere? Collider spoke with producer Roy Lee at DICE 2016 where he explained that the filmmaking team is still trying to figure out a way to adapt the over 1,000 page book to the screen and what form that might take - be it one or several movies:

"Right now it's just in a holding pattern trying to figure out how to best make the movie because we've toyed with breaking it up into multiple movies, making it into one, making it into two. The latest draft, Josh Boone had written it and he was very anxious to make it but since then has written another script, Revival, which he's gonna do beforehand, so we're just waiting for that."
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One possibility that Lee isn't keen on is a combination film and TV rollout such as has been suggested for the film adaptation of King's "The Dark Tower" series. At one time there was talk of adapting the work as an eight-episode Showtime miniseries which would conclude with a feature film - something Lee is against:

"There was definitely talk about doing that but the logistics made it very difficult to try to do a worldwide launch of a movie when the TV component would not necessarily be released at the same time worldwide. So it became a logistic nightmare to try to figure that out, so that plan was abandoned."
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Lee confirms that right now the plan is for two films, not unlike the two film adaptation of King's "It" that's also currently in the works.

 

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Josh Boone Talks The Stand

Posted: March 24, 2016, 22:29:33
Section: Film » The Stand

Josh Boone talks about The Stand in an new interview.

Now, as for The Stand, which has been in the works for quite some time, Boone explained, “We’re working on it. The reason The Stand hasn’t been made yet is because it’s expensive. It’s a problem of perception, I think. We really are attempting to revive the idea of the elevated horror film–movies like The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining–A-list films with A-list casts. The 1980s really killed this idea because studios realized you could make horror films for dirt cheap and make a killing. In theory, every studio wants to make The Stand. It’s a bona fide American classic. It should be an event movie. A big, serious-minded epic with an awe-inspiring cast that is as faithful as possible to King’s narrative and intentions. This should be The Godfather of post-apocalyptic epics. I adapted the book and have King’s blessing. We got that awe-inspiring cast. But [Warner Bros.] didn’t want to spend what it would actually cost to make the movie. To have a real conversation about making this film at a level that is appropriate for the book King wrote is an 85- to-100-million-dollar conversation, which from where I’m sitting sounds like a no-brainer considering the mind-numbing nonsense that studios spend $250 million on. Which brings me back to that perception problem. They look at The Stand and wonder why they can’t make this post-apocalyptic horror movie for $35 million. King and I were most excited and continue to be most excited about a single three-hour event movie: The Godfather of post-apocalyptic movies.”

Does he have any studios in mind? “My hope is that we’ll go make that movie with Lionsgate,” Boone said. “My adaptation is incredibly faithful to King’s book, but the way I was able to contain all of it in a single three-hour film is: I shattered King’s structure and told the story non-linear. That was really what broke everything open for me. The opening scene is Mother Abigail on her deathbed sending our heroes off to make their stand against the Dark Man in Vegas, and then we jump back in time and you basically have three spinning timelines going the whole movie–Captain Trips, Boulder, and The Stand, same as the book, but they are all happening simultaneously. Sequences that fall hundreds of pages apart in the book stand side-by-side in the film, echoing and resonating in new and strange ways. I remain incredibly excited about that script. I can’t wait to make it. The Stand is the movie of a lifetime so I’m completely content waiting until someone gives us exactly what we need to do it right rather than to compromise.”

 

[Victarion]

Interesting structure. I'd watch it.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I really wish they'd do it as a trilogy.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'm sick of splitting a book into parts ********.

If we can watch a three and a half hour LOTR finale in theaters, we can watch The Stand as a three hour movie. That's enough.

 

[Sawyer]

Give me HBO miniseries or give me death.

 

[souvlaki]

Give me HBO miniseries or give me death.

This is such an obvious idea and I have no clue why they always go the movie route. HBO, Showtime, Starz, Netflix I don't really care. It's not like it's the 1990's. A movie feels like a downgrade knowing what a well written tv miniseries could be.

 

[Sawyer]

Turning this book into a single film feels like there would be no room for it to breathe. Turning this book into a multi-part film feels like all too risky of an endeavor, considering how relatively low-spectacle and character-driven the book is. An 8-10 hour miniseries just seems like the best case scenario to me.

 

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Fun Fact: The Stand

Posted: December 16, 2016, 08:43:07

Josh Boone revealed that James Franco was attached to play Larry Underwood in his filmversion of The Stand.

I was friendly with James because he was attached to play Larry Underwood in The Stand. He asked to read it, and said he wanted to make it.

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[Sawyer]

*remembers how I felt binge watching Westworld*

*yearns*

 

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Josh Boone On The Stand
Posted: October 17, 2017, 18:50:57
Section: Film » The Stand
Josh Boone just posted this on King's board.

Hi, Josh Boone here. I happened to come across this and wanted to say that I never wrote a draft of The Stand with anything but the ending from the book. You are referring to a draft that preceded me, which I actively worked to ensure never got made because it was in no way an adaptation of the book, just fan fiction. I am still working on The Stand and will be making it next as soon as New Mutants opens in April as a limited series. I've been working on it for four years and I promise you it will be a faithful adaptation of the book with an incredible cast.

 

[Eddie Dean]

If you really believe that's Josh Boone...

 

[Brother Jack]

I guess that would mean it's going to be on TV after all. I still would've wanted a film trilogy out of it but going the mini-series route is the safer bet and, judging by the development hell, probably the only way this is going to get made at all.

 

[Marvolo]

If Boone really posted that, then that is great news.