[Slow Ben]

Boom!


http://comicbook.com...lagg-in-stephe/



If you'd have told me he'd play Flagg a few years ago i'd have told you you're crazy. Now i think its pretty fucking perfect.

Hope they do these books justice.

[Ceda Cicero]

Slow Ben, on 25 November 2014 - 03:30 PM, said:

Boom!


http://comicbook.com...lagg-in-stephe/



If you'd have told me he'd play Flagg a few years ago i'd have told you you're crazy. Now i think its pretty fucking perfect.

Hope they do these books justice.

Couldn't agree more. I'm incredibly stoked by the news.

Now they just need to reunite him with Woody Harrelson by casting Woody as Stu Redman.

[QuickTidal]

That's a great choice actually. Well played.

[worry]

Yah, true, but at least here they seem to be making an honest attempt. And hopefully they rewrite the finale (since there's no need for Dark Tower stuff). Strangely enough the IT project is only getting split into two films, even though its material is so much richer.

[Nicodimas]

I am pretty big King fan, so really looking forward to how they split it up into *4* movies.

I mean they did it to hungers games with four movies... Hunger games is only 270k words, The stand is 460k total words.

Hopefully this makes way for the Dark tower!

[Nicodimas]

DT will happen Worry, just after Marvel drains superheroes dry so 2019-2020.

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Omg this could awesome! On the other hand it could be norm King Crap. His books are fucking great but they just can't make a non corny movie/show out of my them 96% of the time it seems.

The tough part is the director that captures this right.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 25 November 2014 - 11:16 PM

[worry]

It might happen (Ron Howard was trying and failing for a while), but I'd prefer if The Stand was also The Standalone (just in its movie form, I mean).

[Ceda Cicero]

worry, on 25 November 2014 - 11:19 PM, said:

It might happen (Ron Howard was trying and failing for a while), but I'd prefer if The Stand was also The Standalone (just in its movie form, I mean).

Agreed, though I wouldn't argue with a few winks and nods to DT fans (ala the painting of Roland in the beginning of the God-awful King film The Mist.)

[Nicodimas]

I liked the The Mist remake.

It's so easy to work in DT stuff in a movie without it even messing with the flow. They could be explicit probably and the gen audience wouldn't notice.

[Battalion]

This was a great book but the ending kind of sucked, much like a lot of King's books. I have faint memories of a tv film they made years ago with the guy from CSI New York but can't recall if it was any good.

[worry]

It was not.

[Battalion]

That bad?

[worry]

Been a long time since I saw it last. There's some decent casting, though nowhere near as strong a cast as IT, and some real doozy bad performances.

[Slow Ben]

Molly Ringwald was particularly horrible in it.

[WinterPhoenix]

I stopped keeping up news on The Stand and possible movie adaptations some months ago, I am really stoked to see that they are planning to make 4 movies, it really needs at least a trilogy to be done properly. After having watched True Detective as well (still haven't gotten round to seeing The Dallas Buyers Club) I can really see Matthew McConaughey doing the character of Randall Flagg justice, I also agree that Harrelson as Stu Redman would be brilliant. I never watched the TV miniseries because I've pretty much only heard bad things about it, apart from some people praising Gary Sinise's performance as Stu.

What do people here think about casting for the rest of the characters? 4 movies suggests that most of them will appear in some manner I would have presumed. Someone like Nick Andros will be tough to cast, a deaf-mute character really requires some great acting I would imagine :/

Also much as I am certain McConaughey can do it justice, there a part of me that is disappointed we won't see Daniel Day-Lewis take the role on.

[Ceda Cicero]

I mean, considering the made-for-TV movies aired in the '90s and was, ah, made-for-TV, it isn't as God-awful terrible as it could have been. The ending is how the original publication of the book ended (more or less), before King released the unabridged version

Spoiler

with Flagg being reborn on a beach and taking control of a band of primitives and the whole "ka like a wheel" theme reasserting itself

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[Traveller]

I read The Stand way back. It was one of the first books I read that dealt with a 'realistic' apocalypse; it was also one of the longest books I'd read. But I'm not sure, looking back, that I get the love for it.

Ok, two opposing forces arise in different US states, and survivors get drawn to each. There are some memorable characters, but the overall story and conclusion is pretty weak really.. I liked Flagg in the Eyes of the Dragon, but being a guy in cowboy boots who sends a crazy arsonist to bring him a nuke just doesn't really seem all that evil or clever, for that matter.( And what's the significance of him always having the initials RF?)

Sorry, haven't read it for years, maybe I missed something. I'm just not sure that it's worth four films, knowing how it ends.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 28 November 2014 - 10:58 PM

[WinterPhoenix]

I am actually imagining the ending will be reimagined for Cinema, if there is one major problem with Stephen King's writing it is often his inability to write a good ending, I really can see a rewrite on the cards for the end in this case. Of course, then you have to worry about the track Record King movie adaptations have, a few great and alot of awful ones :/

[Traveller]

I think maybe the problem is that King stories just work better as books - the writing itself, the atmosphere, characters inner thoughts, creepyness etc are what makes them memorable; the aspects that make them good books don't transfer to the screen very well as these elements are much harder to show with any degree of success.

I hate it when a moment that was so good in a book appears on screen and is a total disappointment.

It might explain the shitty track record anyway.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 29 November 2014 - 08:29 AM

[Abyss]

Read the original book, loved it.Read the re extended version, didn't think it was wildly better for the extra stuff, but okay.Saw the TV series. It was a watchable eight hours that at its core had some of the book. It failed to really be the epic battle for the world that the book conveys, but hey, Rob Lowe got beat up a few times.
The thing is, in eight hours ... And in fact in the book at all... there were really all of two climaxes... The bomb and the finale. With TV that's ok because you can end an episode on a dramatic note if not an actual cliffhanger... But a two hour movie... That's going to leave an audience feeling more than a little ripped off. Which means major rewrites. Which means it won't be The Stand in the sense that World War Z wasn't World War Z. That doesn't mean they can't make good movies around the basic storyline, but color me sceptical.