Stephen King Loves the Script for THE STAND Film Adaptation
Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) is the man who will bring Stephen King's novel The Stand to the big screen, and I can't help but think that he's going to nail it. The guy has a true love for King's work, and he knows exactly what he wants out of this thing.
In a recent interview with Collider, he revealed that he finished the script a month ago, and that he showed it to King, who loved it!
"I finished writing the script maybe a month ago. Stephen [King] absolutely loved it. It’s, I think, the first script ever approved by him. [It’ll be] a single version movie of The Stand. Three Hours. It hews very closely to the novel."
I wondered how anyone would be able to take that story and cut it into a 3-hour movie, but apparently Boone pulled it off and got the Stephen King stamp of approval. This is exciting news for anyone who is a fan of King's work. Of course, he's not going to be able to fit everything from the book into the movie he's making, but it will convey that epic scale of the story. So how did the writer and director choose what would go and what would stay to keep the core of the story? He goes on to explain, saying:
"I'm so familiar with [King’s] work and I’ve read so many of his books so many times over the years that it was a just a really comfortable thing to be able to work with his material. He gives you so much material to work with. There’s an abundance of it. So it’s not a book where you have to generate new material and make it work for a movie…I just focused on the things that I felt strongly about, that I have strong memories about, that are evocative to me even when I read it now. You just have an internal interest meter. The Stand is about so many things – you could make ten to fifteen different movies and focus on a different aspect of it. I just focused on the things that were more important to me and felt essential to me and were based in the characters."
I was a little apprehensive about Boone directing this movie at first, but I think he's going to be the guy to get it done, and get it done right. In a previous interview, he also said that the movie will be rated R, and that it will have "an amazing A-list cast across the board. Every single one of those characters will be somebody you recognize and somebody you relate to. And it’s gonna be awesome."
The guy is so excited about this project and it shows every time he talks about it. I seriously can't wait to see his vision come to life.