THE FAULT IN OUR STARS director Josh Boone is reportedly in talks to write and direct an adaptation of Stephen King’s cult classic The Stand.
The story follows a group of survivors left after a virus kills off most of the American population. Coming up against good and evil, our protagonists have to face-off against a manic Antichrist character.
OUT OF THE FURNACE director Scott Cooper was originally attached to the project but dropped out in November 2013, leaving the position open for Boone to (potentially) take over. Published in 1978, the book has a cult following, and a film adaptation has been in and out of planning for several years, with both David Yates and Ben Affleck previously attached.
As mentioned above, Boone is the director behind the adaptation of John Green’s uber-popular Young Adult novel The Fault In Our Stars. If he officially signs up it looks like Boone may have found his calling…although I don’t think TFiOS and The Stand could be further apart, genre-wise.
Source: The Wrap
