After many have tried
and failed, it seems that Warner Bros. and The Fault in Our Stars director Josh
Boone have found a way to adapt Stephen King's colossal novel, The Stand,
without compromising both author's vision.
According to The
Wrap, Warner Bros. and CBS Films are closing in on a deal with Showtime to have
an eight-part miniseries produced, which will act as an opening for Boone's
feature film. The plan is to shoot the adaptation of the nearly 1000-page novel
as a single and cohesive production, with the miniseries flowing into the film.
All parties are aiming to start filming early next year.
Though the plan makes
sense given that it is such a large novel, it doesn't come without its risks,
especially nowadays with studios paying more and more attention to international
markets. Will the studio be able to secure international distributors for the miniseries in all the countries the film is scheduled to
premiere?
This is the fourth
plan Boone and company devised to bring King's apocalyptic vision
of a world blasted by plague into the big screen. The first idea was to have
one three-hour film, then they thought that would be impossible and decided to split
the film in two, and then four, before deciding on a miniseries accompanied by
a film.
This approach is also
being utilized in another Stephen King adaptation. The Dark Tower is being
planned as a trilogy of films and two miniseries.
This is a huge step
for Boone, whose previous works were small character driven dramas, but it won't
be his last big project since after The Stand is done, the director is set to
helm the X-Men spinoff, The New Mutants, and Anne Rice's Prince Lestat.
"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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