Directors have been trying and failing for many, many years to make a movie based on Stephen King’s The Stand. Back in the 1980s, King and George A. Romero actually made their anthology film Creepshow as a means of getting enough clout to adapt the pandemic epic as a feature… but that strategy didn’t pan out as hoped. The book has been adapted twice as miniseries, but the list of filmmakers who tried and failed to turn the story into a blockbuster includes Ben Affleck, Scott Cooper, David Yates, and Josh Boone.
It’s very clearly a tough mountain to climb… but that’s not stopping director Doug Liman from attempting the hike.
The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures is ignoring the fact that the last miniseries adaptation of The Stand was released just five years ago, as the studio has tapped the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge Of Tomorrow to try and make the first movie based on the Stephen King novel. The trade says that screenwriters have not yet been hired for the gig, but there is expectation that there will be a lot of pitches proffered.
Andy Muschietti brought IT to the big screen for the first time, sources say that there is a vision in play to make just a single film.
More to come…