It has taken writer/director Josh
Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) a considerable amount of time to adapt Stephen
King's 1000-page book, The Stand into a three-hour movie, but it is finally
done.
According to Boone, the script is finished,
and was presented to King, who loved it.
"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."
Boone goes on to say that being a fan of the novel
made it easier to decide what's worth keeping and what isn't.
"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."
As for when they start shooting it,
Boone says that it will take 6 to 8 months of pre-production, but once that is
finished production should
star "next Spring at the earliest."
The director hasn't finalized the
budget and is in the process of meeting with actors, so don't expect to hear
any announcements soon.
Source - Collider
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