Ten-hour miniseries of The Stand on CBS All Access

[webstar1000]

I'd like to see Jackson tackle The Dark Tower.

Sorry, yes that's a much better idea.

[uturn83]

3 hrs..... Need HBO, Showtime, etc to tackle it! (along with IT!)

[mattgreenbean]

3 hrs..... Need HBO, Showtime, etc to tackle it! (along with IT!)

AMC, A&E, FX, TNT would work.

[CyberGhostface]

I think Frank Darabont could do DT justice. But he once told King he was interested and King turned him down.

[Merlin1958]

I think Frank Darabont could do DT justice. But he once told King he was interested and King turned him down.

Really? I wonder why?

[CyberGhostface]

Not much of an answer but...

“Frank did come to me, and I know Frank from before either one of us had a pot to piss in. Frank said, ‘Gee, I’d like to do Dark Tower.’ I said, ‘Frank, give me a break! You’ve got The Mist, The Monkey. You’ve got the prison stories. … Stop putting so much on your plate!’”

http://www.slashfilm.com/stephen-kin...k-tower-movie/

[Merlin1958]

Not much of an answer but...

“Frank did come to me, and I know Frank from before either one of us had a pot to piss in. Frank said, ‘Gee, I’d like to do Dark Tower.’ I said, ‘Frank, give me a break! You’ve got The Mist, The Monkey. You’ve got the prison stories. … Stop putting so much on your plate!’”

http://www.slashfilm.com/stephen-kin...k-tower-movie/

Well, I guess there ya go!!

[mae]

http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/josh-...the-stand.html

So I’m a big Stephen King fan, and I know you’re a gigantic Stephen King fan, so I have to ask about The Stand. You’re directing it. What can you tell me about it?
We’re gonna do one three-hour, R-rated version with an amazing A-list cast across the board. Every single one of those characters will be somebody you recognize and somebody you relate to. And it’s gonna be awesome. I’m really excited. It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever got to do in my entire life. If 12-year-old me had ever known that one day I’d be doing this, to even just go back and look at that kid, I’d be like, Keep doing what you’re doing! It’s just crazy. I’ve met so many actors over the years, and like, when I met Stephen King, I hugged him with tears in my eyes. He meant that much to me when I was young. I still say everything I learned about writing I learned from Stephen King. I don’t read screenplays. I don’t read screenplay how-to books. It’s always just, establish the character. Establish the character.

[webstar1000]

http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/josh-...the-stand.html

So I’m a big Stephen King fan, and I know you’re a gigantic Stephen King fan, so I have to ask about The Stand. You’re directing it. What can you tell me about it?
We’re gonna do one three-hour, R-rated version with an amazing A-list cast across the board. Every single one of those characters will be somebody you recognize and somebody you relate to. And it’s gonna be awesome. I’m really excited. It’s the most exciting thing I’ve ever got to do in my entire life. If 12-year-old me had ever known that one day I’d be doing this, to even just go back and look at that kid, I’d be like, Keep doing what you’re doing! It’s just crazy. I’ve met so many actors over the years, and like, when I met Stephen King, I hugged him with tears in my eyes. He meant that much to me when I was young. I still say everything I learned about writing I learned from Stephen King. I don’t read screenplays. I don’t read screenplay how-to books. It’s always just, establish the character. Establish the character.

I read that too.. I wonder what he means by A-List? I also think that 3 hours is no where near long enough...

[Merlin1958]

You know, 3, maybe 3.5 hours could do it in the right hands. Movies are not books. A picture can be worth 1,000 words if, it is the right picture. Look at what LOTR did in comparison.

[webstar1000]

You know, 3, maybe 3.5 hours could do it in the right hands. Movies are not books. A picture can be worth 1,000 words if, it is the right picture. Look at what LOTR did in comparison.

WELL SAID MERLIN! I have to totally agree with you on this point. In the right hands and the right acting.... oh and attention to detail... your 100% correct. A picture is worth a 1000 words!

[Iwritecode]

The problem with that comparison is that all 3 LOTR books together are around the same length of The Stand by itself. And it took them 3 3.5 hour movies to cover the material and still left a lot out.

[CyberGhostface]

Alright, alright, alright.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=122193

[Merlin1958]

Alright, alright, alright.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=122193

I think he would work.

[Bev Vincent]

@JoshBooneMovies: I have always wanted McConaughey as Stu and Bale as Flagg. Still not sure how that story leaked - just not true.

[Merlin1958]

@JoshBooneMovies: I have always wanted McConaughey as Stu and Bale as Flagg. Still not sure how that story leaked - just not true.

Yeah, that's even better. I only went with it due to the article.

[Lookwhoitis]

How in the heck do you give THE STAND to a neophyte Rom-Com director???

I mean jesus Christo, Guillermo del Toro or Alphonso Cuaron should be directing it.

[Shannon]

I love Matthew McConaughey. He doesn't always pick the best movies, but when it calls for it, he is a DAMN good actor.

See: True Detective.

[CyberGhostface]

@JoshBooneMovies: I have always wanted McConaughey as Stu and Bale as Flagg. Still not sure how that story leaked - just not true.

Awww I thought McConaughey would have been a great Flagg. I like Bale but I think Matt's southern drawl would have been perfect...

Ah we'll at least either way we'd be getting an Oscar winner. Only the best for R.F.

[mae]

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/step...adaptation-748

In an interview with Collider, writer/director Josh Boone revealed he's finished the script for THE STAND adaptation, and says author Stephen King really enjoyed Boone's take on his novel.

I finished writing the script maybe a month ago. Stephen [King] absolutely loved it. It’s, I think, the first script ever approved by him. [It'll be] a single version movie of The Stand. Three hours. It hews very closely to the novel. It was such an amazing process. I’m so familiar with [King's] work and I’ve read so many of his books so many times over the years that it was just a really comfortable thing to be able to work with his material. He gives you so much great material to work with. There’s an abundance of it. So it’s not a book where you have to generate new material and make it work for a movie. He writes so cinematically and his characters are so sharply drawn. You don’t have to change much. [You use] a lot of structural things to condense a thousand pages into a three-hour movie but it’s still at heart his material. I just made it work within the confines of what a single film can be.

It's interesting Josh Boone says new material doesn't need to be created to make THE STAND work as a movie, since David Kajganich's draft of the adaptation had a very different ending compared to the novel. Sounds like Boone might not be using Kajganich's ending for the film.

Josh Boone goes on to talk about deciding what to leave out from King's book for the movie, and says spring of next year is the earliest production might start on the project.

I just focused on the things that I felt strongly about, that I have strong memories about, that are evocative to me even when I read it now. You just have an internal interest meter. The Stand is about so many things — you could make ten to fifteen different movies and focus on a different aspect of it. I just focussed on the things that were more important to me and felt essential to me and were based in the characters...It takes a long time to prep a film like that. Six to eight months. I don’t imagine we would shoot the movie until next Spring at the earliest. And we’re still early in the process. I’m still meeting actors and having budget meetings and all that.

If Boone has already been meeting with actors for THE STAND, maybe one of them was Matthew McConaughey, who last month we learned might be being eyed by Warner Bros. to play Randall Flagg in the adaption. Boone previously promised "an amazing A-list cast across the board" for his movie, and I'm really hoping McConaughey does end up playing the villain.

Josh Boone's THE STAND doesn't currently have a release date. When do you think would be a good time for it to hit theaters? During the summer? Flu season?

[Merlin1958]

Very interesting!!

[webstar1000]

http://collider.com/the-stand-movie-...boone/?_r=true

[Derg Corra]

Don't screw it up, Hollywood! The Stand is my favorite Stephen King standalone novel.

[iJosh]

Yay

[mae]

So, four movies now?

http://smodcast.com/episodes/hollywo...-in-our-stand/