Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The
Stand has had its share of names associated with it. Ben Affleck, David Yates
and more recently Scott Cooper have all left the director’s chair.
Per BD, it seems that Captain Phillips director Paul
Greengrass is on the top of Warner Bros. list to direct the “Stephen King’s
apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental
struggle between good and evil”. THR adds that directors Cary Fukunaga (Jane
Eyre), Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners), and Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) are also
contenders for the now empty chair.
The Stand Book Synopsis Via Amazon:
Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted
by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as
riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility,
unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will
wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who
remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother
Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful
community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,”
who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman
gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide
the fate of all humanity.
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