Doug Liman is set to attempt the impossible by adapting Stephen King’s The Stand for the big-screen.
Per The Hollywood Reporter The Edge of Tomorrow and Bourne Identity director will try and condense King’s iconic 1978 novel into a feature film.
Despite being adapted into an excellent 1994 miniseries, and a not-so-great 2019 limited series, a cinematic version is a feat that has felled both George A. Romero and Ben Affleck in the past. Liman will direct The Stand and reunite with his American Made producer Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures.
A post-apocalyptic opus, the novel is made up of 1,152 pages and tells a complicated story of Good vs. Evil. Set in a world destroyed by an influenza pandemic, Earth’s remaining survivors are drawn to either the benevolent Mother Abagail or the malevolent Randall Flagg, all building towards a final battle between light and dark.
Liman’s last film was the Matt Damon and Casey Affleck headlined crime caper The Instigators, while he also has multiple movies in development, such as the much ballyhooed Tom Cruise-in-Space project, so it remains to be seen when, if at all The Stand will make it to the big-screen.
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