all about Hollywood has this Ben Affleck news:
MUMBAI: Ben Affleck has been signed on to star in Warner Bros Pictures' Nathan Decker. In the political comedy will have the 39-year old Affleck play a politician who is caught in an affair and returns home to confront his past.
Since the Daredevil star will not direct the film because of his current busy schedule doing the post-production stage of Argo, the Studio is currently looking for a director to helm the project.
His upcoming directorial venture includes a big-budgeted adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Stand. Affleck has also been attached for an untitled Terrence Malick project that is said to be a romantic drama also starring Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
Affleck was last seen in 2010's The Town that he also directed.Full article HERE
So many Stephen King movies in the works, and so few of them seem to be actually going anywhere...
ReplyDeleteWell,you know what they say, it's the economy, plus why bother with film that has an actual story when you can merchandise?
ReplyDeleteI still hold out hope for 11/22/63.
ChrisC
I was initially excited for a movie version of "11/22/63," but it's so large a novel that I've ceased to believe a movie can do it justice. As with so many King stories, it'd be better served as a ten-part miniseries on HBO or Showtime.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that there has been zero news on that movie in over six months probably indicates that the adaptation isn't going well.
My guess is that it doesn't happen with Demme.
I believe a movie can be made out of it. I think the middle section of the book drags and that a movie will pull that together.
ReplyDeleteSee, I think if you remove that middle section, you're removing the heart of the story, and that a lot of what comes after no longer has anywhere near as much emotional resonance.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, virtually all of the stuff about Harry Dunning's family would have to be removed.
If a movie is made, it would be theoretically possible to take the basic idea -- a time-traveler going back to stop the assassination, but finding that the past resists being changed -- and then craft an entirely different set of conflicts for the protagonist to face. I'd be okay with that idea moreso than I'd be okay with the idea of the heart and soul of the novel beig ripped out.
But, of course, I'll go see it either way.