Stephen King writes books that get made into movies. Almost 40 times now. That's what the dude does.
But despite years of film development that went nowhere, the book that most people consider to be King's best, The Stand, has never made it to the big screen (there was a TV miniseries in '94, which is where the image above comes from). According to an interview with Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone on the Kevin Smith podcast Hollywood Babble-On, that's about to change in a huge way.
Boone revealed that Warner Bros. has him signed on to write and direct a four movies based on the novel about a weaponized flu strain that threatens to destroy humanity.
In the podcast, Boone says he originally wrote a script (which King loved) that compressed the epic novel into a single movie, budgeted at $87 million.
Warner Bros. came back at him with an idea to go bigger budget, and make it into four movies. His reaction was pretty great.
I said, 'Fuck yes!' I loved my script, and I was willing to drop it in an instant because you’re able to do an even truer version that way. So I think we are going to do like four movies ... I’ll just say we are going to do four movies, and we’re going to do The Stand at the highest level you can do it at, with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds.
[Via Slashfilm]
