The long overdue big screen adaptation of Stephen King's thousand-page-long epic The
Stand seems like it just does not want to get made even though things appeared
as if they were on track with The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone
onboard to direct from a script he had written. Furthermore, casting talks have
already taken place with some actors already verbally committed to the project.
However, time has this weird
fixation of moving forward, and Warner Bros. lost the rights, which reverted to
CBS Films, who now has to decide whether to find a new studio or do it on its
own via their partnership with Lionsgate.
Meanwhile, while CBS Films
decides what path to take with The Stand, Boone, who until further notice is
still very much attached to the project, has cleared his schedule and will take
on another King adaptation, the Revival. Boone wrote a spec script for
the thriller, and King put the filmmaker in contact with producer Michael De
Luca, who had optioned the book recently. Boone and De Luca have already submitted
the script to Universal, where the producer has a first-look deal.
Revival
is "a dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what
might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.
Jamie
has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in
bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and
roll while fleeing from his family’s horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted
to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound
consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s
devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many
meanings.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It’s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe."
It
will be interesting to see if CBS can get The Stand off the ground before
losing Boone, who is also attached to write and direct the adaptation of the
Anne Rice novel, The Vampire Chronicles, and the X-Men spinoff, The New
Mutants.
As
for The Stand, it has been one of those projects that just refuses to get off
the ground for some reason, and yes it is big, but David Yates was at one point
set to direct the adaptation as his first post-Harry Potter movie, but he and
screenwriter Steve Kloves couldn't crack the adaptation. Ben Affleck was subsequently
brought in, but he too faced the same problem. Crazy Heart writer/director Scott
Cooper also tried to adapt the material, but left citing creative disagreements
with the studio. Finally, Boone came in and has far as we know, did manage to
write the adaptation, and with King's approval.
Source
- Deadline
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