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Stephen King’s classic read “The Stand” is headed to the big screen.
The 1978 novel was previously made into a television mini-series starring Rob Lowe and Molly Ringwald in 1994. In recent times it was adapted into a comic series by Marvel Comics.
CBS films and Warner Bros have teamed up on the feature film version. Mosaiac and “Grudge” producer Roy Lee are shepherding the project, THR says the creatives haven’t yet decided whether or not the book should be condensed into one film or kept in tact and spread out over several.
The book is set in 1991; a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are “immune” to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the “Dark Man” are drawn to Las Vegas,
Nevada. The two groups separately re-build society, until one must destroy the other.
George Romero and Warner Bros previously tried to get a movie version up in the ’80s.
