Stephen
King's The Stand has seen its fare share of adaptations over the
years. There was the 1994 miniseries on ABC starring Gary Sinese, and
Jamey Sheridan. In 2008, Marvel published a 30-issue comic
adaptation. Since then Warner Bros. have been trying to adapt the
novel to the big screen with little to no success. Ben Affleck and
Scott Cooper were at some point attached to helm the big screen
adaptation but nothing came of it.
Now
that director Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) is on board it
looks like the project is finally gaining some serious traction.
According to The Wrap, Oscar Winner Matthew McConaughey is on the top
of Stephen King, and Boone's lists to star in the film as Randall
Flagg. The outlet goes on to say that despite being courted to play
Flagg, McConaughey could choose between that character or Stuart
Redman.
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.
Source
– The Wrap
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