News
about the Josh Boone's adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand are few and far
between, but in his recent appearance on Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On
podcast the director dropped a few intriguing details about the upcoming movie,
or should I say four movies.
“I
sold them on a single, three hour movie. I went and got [Stephen] King
sold on it, everybody’s really excited…I told the story non-linear and that was
the way I was able to compress that book and get everything into that script.
You open with Mother Abigail dying and sending the guys off, and then you jump
back in time… So what happened is the script gets finished, I write it in like
five months, everybody loves it, King loves it, $87 million is what it was
budgeted at, really expensive for a horror drama that doesn’t have set pieces.”
Well he says
expensive, but the studio thinks otherwise.
“They
came back and said “would you do it as multiple films?” and I said “fuck yes!”
I loved my script, and I was willing to drop it in an instant because you’re
able to do an even truer version that way. So I think we are going to do like
four movies. I can’t tell you anything about how we’re going to do them, or
what’s going to be in which movie. I’ll just say we are going to do four
movies, and we’re going to do THE STAND at the highest level you can do it at,
with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds. We’ve already been talking to
lots of people, and have people on board in certain roles that people don’t
know about. We’re looking to go into production next year, maybe in the spring.”
Of
course this doesn't mean there will actually be four movies. When it comes to
franchises the studios always say they have plans for a second and third and
more movies, but the first film than fails at the box office or doesn't perform
the way they intended and all plans go down the drain, so fingers crossed this
first entry in the upcoming franchise does well.
Source
- Hollywood Babble-On (via Collider)
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