According to hollywoodreporter.com, we can expect to see The Stand in theaters. Borys Kit says that "The studios and producers will sit down with writers and directors in the coming weeks in an attempt to find the right take on the material."
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Of course, there are a lot of issues yet to be hashed out. Is this one movie, or multiple movies? (Multiple, please!) And what will Stephen King's involvement be?
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The article says, CBS has held the rights for many years but recently realized the best way to undertake the project was with a partner. Warners beat out Fox and Sony in a tight bidding war for the gig, getting its hands on one of the biggest-selling books of all time.
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I hope they do an awesome job on this, because I really like The Stand. The mini-series was great, and very faithful to the book. There were scenes, however, that failed to deliver the same punch the novel did. Larry's journey through the tunnel is one. It wasn't claustrophobic enough. He just kinda walked through. But when I read the novel, I actually look ahead in the book to see if Larry lived! It seemed King was about to whack him in the tunnel.
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Does this make anyone wonder what happened to the IT movie adaptation?
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Kit also writes that George Romero and Warners separately tried in vain to launch a movie adaptation in the 1980s. Of course, a six hour mini-series was produced in the 1994. He offers this conclusion: "with Universal mounting an ambitious take on The Dark Tower, and now The Stand, King may be getting ready to return to the throne as the novelist the town loves the most."
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