Stephen King‘s “The Stand” may finally be heading to the big screen.
Filmmaker Doug Liman is attached to direct a feature film of the post-apocalyptic bestseller for Paramount Pictures, with Cross Creek Pictures’ Tyler Thompson on board to produce. The project does not yet have a script, however, so development may take some time as Liman and the studio winnow King’s novel — which runs 1,153 pages in its unabridged version — into a single movie. But the studio sees the movie as a priority and is moving forward aggressively to make it happen.
More to come.
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