A new adaptation of Stephen King’s THE STAND is in the works; a big, three-hour, R-rated version apparently, and screenwriter Josh Boone has an update for us. We last spoke about the project in June where Boone said that he was in the process of penning said screenplay, but now it looks like he may have completed it, and Stephen King has also chimed in with his opinion too.
“I finished writing the script maybe a month ago,” says Boone. “Stephen 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, [and] it hews very closely to the novel.”
“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… I just made it work within the confines of what a single film can be.”
Boone, who brought us this year’s adaptation of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, will also direct the movie, but it looks like production is still a way off.
“It takes a long time to prep a film like that,” says Boone. “Six to eight months. I don’t imagine we would shoot the movie until next spring at the earliest, and we’re still early in the process. I’m still meeting actors and having budget meetings and all that.”
Boone also has LISEY’S STORY in the works, another King story, and also an adaptation of Anne Rice’s THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. It looks like he’ll take THE STAND first though.
More news as we get it.
Source: Collider
