Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves and director of the last four movies David Yates will join together again to bring us the feature film version of 'The Stand'.
HitFix tells us this:
This makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons. First, "The Stand" remains this tantalizing almost for a lot of fans of the book. The Mick Garris version for television is a very faithful telling, but there's something wild and terrifying about the book that television standards and practices just didn't make room for, a scope to the world of the book that still hasn't been captured. Kloves is a smart writer and given two (or possibly even three) movies to tell the story, he can let it live and breathe, and hopefully nobody's going to try to push this to a PG-13. "The Stand," as originally written, was dark and powerful and disturbing, and if you're not going to go further than television has allowed in the past, there seems little reason to revisit the material.I wonder this will turn out?
Yates had mentioned his involvement with "The Stand" when he was doing press for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," but he was still just thinking about it at the time. Word is that the deals are now coming together quickly, and that this is a priority project for the studio and for Vertigo Pictures, which will produce. After all, with "Potter" concluded, why not put the same team back to work on something that will cover several films? It's darker and more adult fare, but it's a book that has sold millions and millions of copies over the years, one of the best known things King ever wrote.
At the time, though, he didn't mention that this was a reunion. If this comes together quickly, this could be several huge release dates for Warner Bros., and a real treat for King fans. We'll have more on this as details are finalized, but for now, count on an official announcement soon.
3 comments:
How will they turn that novel into a 2-hour film?
What will they cut out?
I'm pumped about this!
I wonder Vik, what are your thoughts on King? I remember reading all his books as I grew up. But I also remember that every single book had "nigger" in it MULTIPLE times. The black characters were also almost always the "magical negro" kind. Always helping the primary white male or female characters to their destiny. But never primary characters. Were any of his primary characters male/female and something other than white? I just wonder if I were to read them again or revisit would I come away with the same impression. Would certain prevailing elements stand out more to me now than they did then as being kinda..."limited in vision". What do you think?
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