No official plot, but the book told the post-apocalyptic story of a world wiped out by a man-made plague and a war between good versus evil ensues with the remaining human population.
RELEASE DATE
N/A
CURRENT STATUS
In Development
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCED BY
Warner Bros.
CBS Films
Roy Lee
MPAA RATING
N/A
OFFICIAL SITES
N/A
|
DIRECTED BY
Ben Affleck
WRITTEN BY
David Kajganich
STARRING
N/A
|
PROJECT DETAILS
- David Kajganich (The Invasion, Blood Creek, It remake) will script.
- Director David Yates and writer Steve Kloves (duo behind the last four Harry Potter films) were previously going to take on the project, but backed away. Yates explains why in a recent interview: "What I love about King’s work and what I love about The Stand is the fact that Stephen King really puts you into these people’s lives, and you see the world from a very intimate human level, which normally is something I love. But we felt this pressure to make these super tentpole movies with this material, and the things that you get in Potter — which are these extraordinary episodes of action — they didn’t exist in the material, and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to deliver the kind of movie that ultimately the studio was hoping to get from this material. I could see making a miniseries from it, a really interesting, intricate, layered, enjoyable long-burn of a miniseries, I could see that, but what was missing for me were the big movie moments in the material, the big set pieces."
- The studios and producers will sit down with writers and directors in the coming weeks in an attempt to find the right take on the material. (2/01/11)
- This project would be a change for director Ben Affleck, whose last two films were gritty crime dramas (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).
- Apparently Warner Bros. beat out Fox and Sony in a tight bidding war to be involved with this project.
- Stephen King is said will be involved in some capacity.
- It's currently undetermined whether this adaptation will span one or multiple movies.
- A tone-downed adaptation of the book aired as a six-hour miniseries by ABC in 1994.
- George Romero and Warner Bros. reportedly tried to launch a movie adaptation in the 1980s, but failed.
- The original novel was published in 1978, but was re-released in 1990 with revised portions of the story added by King.
- Based on the novel by Stephen King.
GALLERY
VIDEOS
REVIEW
INTERVIEWS
HEADLINES
Tags: based on book, Ben Affleck, CBS Films, David Kajganich, evil, good, MISC, post-apocalyptic, Roy Lee, Stephen King, The Stand, Warner Bros.
if this is serious i would enjoy if they didnt go below an r - rating for this one cause the book is extremely violent. and i hope they play, dont fear the reaper by blue oyster cult. stephen king ecspresed in the book that he want that song to be in the movie if they ever made one.he asumed they would. i know they played it in the 1994 version.but that one was kind of iffy. so hopefully ben affleck dosent mess this one up.
agree with frannie. molly wingwald could do 80s comedies but not drama. defiantly not drama.
yay their finally remaking this i hope they dont mess it up like they did the orginal an plz plz dont get a weak actress to play frannie goldsmith but strangly i dont expect to see this movie anytime soon