Stephen King shares his thoughts on the new Film Adaptation of THE STAND

Movie Stephen King by Joey Paur

It was recently announced that Stephen King's novel The Stand was going to get a big screen adaptation. I loved the 1994 TV mini series adaptation, I love the book, but it's going to be a challenge to adapt this thing. I honestly don't know how they are going to tell this story properly in two hours but they are welcome to try, butchering the story in the process.

EW asked King what he thought about the attempt adapt his novel, and he replied with a top 10 list of humorous things about the movie that he knows, and I agree with his thoughts. 

Here's what the master of horror had to say...

1. No one will be able to top Gary Sinise, who played Stu Redman in the original ABC miniseries. He was perfect. When he says “You don’t know nothing” to the soldiers who are putting him under mandatory quarantine, you believe his contempt completely. My runner-up pick would be Jake Gyllenhaal.
2. I didn’t know anything about the remake until I read about it on the Internet.
3. You absolutely can’t make it as a two-hour movie. If it was a trilogy of films…maybe.
4. Molly Ringwald won’t be playing Fran Goldsmith this time. 
5. Rutger Hauer is a little too old to play the Walkin’ Dude, and that’s too bad.
6. People who’ve seen Kubrick’s The Shining dislike the miniseries I wrote (and my amigo Mick Garris directed) even if they haven’t seen it. That’s always annoyed me. But the wheel of karma turns! This time people will probably say, “The miniseries was lots better.” BUT…
7. …historically speaking, movie studios blow the budget on things like this, so maybe it’ll be fun to look at. The dough certainly isn’t going to me, although if it is a trilogy, and if it makes a lot of money, I might be able to buy a chicken dinner at Popeye’s. Great slaw!
8. Molly Ringwald will probably not play the Trashcan Man, either, but Billy Bob Thornton would be cool. Billy Bob’s always cool.
9. They need to write in a lot of heavy-metal for the soundtrack.
10. M-O-O-N, that spells “you probably won’t see this anytime soon.” And when you do, Woody Allen won’t be directing it. Or Molly Ringwald.

It doesn't really sound like he's very excied about this, what do you all think?

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