Paramount Footage and Doug Liman are taking a stand. The Stand, as a matter of reality.
The studio and the filmmaker are teaming as much as adapt Stephen King’s magnum opus. Liman is hooked up to direct the characteristic and can produce together with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Footage. The 2 beforehand teamed to make the 2017 Tom Cruise crime drama American Made.
The mission will now head to writers to pen an adaptation of what’s King’s longest work, with a web page rely of 1,152. It’s going to immediately turn into one of many hottest writing assignments on the town.
The guide, first revealed in 1978 then revised in 1990, is a bar-setting literary masterpiece that has influenced popular culture, from tv reveals reminiscent of Misplaced to musical acts reminiscent of Metallica to varied types of post-apocalyptic literature.
An formidable story of fine vs. evil, it takes place in an America after a virus wipes out a lot of the inhabitants and follows dozens of characters in overlapping storylines operating over a few years. And whereas readers root for the characters such because the Garbage can Man and Mom Abigail, the ultimate showdown got here right down to a bunch of survivors preventing the Antichrist-like Randall Flagg within the wasteland often called Las Vegas.
Stand was tailored twice as a mini-series, as soon as in 1994 and once more in 2020, and as comedian by Marvel Comics. Featurewise, nonetheless, it has bedeviled many a Hollywood participant. Administrators starting from George A. Romero to David Yates to Ben Affleck have tried to sort out the fabric, and Warner Bros. and CBS Movies partnered on creating it within the 2010s.
Sources say that Liman and the studio have a selected take and that the characteristic can be a one-off, not a multi-movie endeavor.
Liman likes to bedevil Hollywood itself as he continues to forge an unconventional movie oeuvre. After bursting out as an indie darling in with Swingers and Go, he went the motion route as he launched Common’s Bourne franchise with The Bourne Id. He then navigated probably the most well-known couple of the century with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. His most up-to-date film was a return to the motion style, final 12 months’s shiny macho remake of Highway Home, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal that grew to become, for some time, probably the most watched film from Amazon MGM.
Liman is also a collaborator of Tom Cruise, helming the well-regarded 2014 unique sci-fi film The Fringe of Tomorrow in addition to American Made. He’s now engaged on Deeper, an underwater supernatural thriller that’s being focused for Cruise and Ana de Armas.
King continues to be one in every of Hollywood’s favourite authors, nearly 50 years because it made its first King adaptation, 1976’s Carrie. This 12 months alone has seen Neon launch each The Monkey, tailored by Osgood Perkins, and The Lifetime of Chuck, written and directed Mike Flanagan. This fall comes The Lengthy Stroll from Lionsgate and a brand new model of The Working Man, which Edgar Wright directed for Paramount. And that doesn’t even rely TV initiatives.
Liman is repped by CAA and Weintraub Tobin. King is repped by Rand Holston Administration and Gang Tyre.