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Old 02-04-11, 04:20 PM
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re: Stephen King's The Stand (2014?)

Ian McShane as Flagg

I could buy Olyphant as Stu
Jennifer Garner as Fran
DiCaprio as Nick
Steve Buscemi as Lloyd
Johnny Depp as Larry

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re: Stephen King's The Stand (2014?)

Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
Maybe Tim McGraw as Larry, and they could change his song to being a country hit.

I agree that Sinise will always be Redman.
Agree with you on both accounts. It's going to be hard to find a better Stu.

As low budget as it was, the TV adaptation had some solid casting across the board, Molly Ringwald and Corin Nemic notwithstanding.
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Originally Posted by rw2516
Ian McShane as Flagg

I could buy Olyphant as Stu
Jennifer Garner as Fran
DiCaprio as Nick
Steve Buscemi as Lloyd
Johnny Depp as Larry
Setting your sights a little high there partner.

on McShane though. That is a realistic choice.
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Love Ian McShane as Randall Flagg. Unless they can land Daniel Day-Lewis, I say go with that choice. I think they should try to get Natalie Portman as Fran.
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at casting Depp, DiCaprio or Portman.

This is gonna be C-list casting or worse.
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Originally Posted by Draven
at casting Depp, DiCaprio or Portman.

This is gonna be C-list casting or worse.


You never know. This is something that has always been touted as an epic, and it is a well known property, so it might draw some names.
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Originally Posted by Draven
at casting Depp, DiCaprio or Portman.

This is gonna be C-list casting or worse.
Nah c-list stars will be too busy filming the dark tower movies

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re: Stephen King's The Stand (2014?)

Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
You never know. This is something that has always been touted as an epic, and it is a well known property, so it might draw some names.
They might get big names for Stu and Frannie, maybe Flagg, but everyone else will be character actors.
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re: Stephen King's The Stand (2014?)

Originally Posted by Draven
at casting Depp, DiCaprio or Portman.

This is gonna be C-list casting or worse.
Probably, but not necessarily. Obviously, if they remade the miniseries, the casting would never flirt with the A-list. However, The Stand condensed into under 3 hours will be something that is only really inspired by the novel rather than something that really truly resembles it. So how good this possible movie will be will most certainly depend on the screenwriter(s) far more than anything else.

I hold out very little hope though.

Oh, and Garner is way too old to play Frannie.
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Just as long as Stephen gets to mug the camera at least once .... IT"S THEM!!!!!!
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Joe Pesci as Flagg
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I keep on thinking a movie called "Happy Crappy" is coming out soon...

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Important question - will Laura San Giacomo's breasts be featured again? Because...hot damn.
She was flat on her back and those things were still capable of poking eyeballs out. Most impressive.
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re: Stephen King's The Stand (2014?)

Getting a wee bit closer:

The Stand: New Movie
Status Update

8/11 /2011 12:01 PM

Last month, we reported the news that
Warner Bros. was looking to develop a new
franchise of films based off of Stephen King’ s The Stand. With the Harry Potter series
wrapped up, Warner Bros. has been looking
at a number of new franchises as possible
replacements.

It was rumored that they were speaking with
David Yates, director of the last four Harry
Potter films, about taking on The Stand.
Now, a new report from HitFix mentions
that Warner Bros is finalizing deals for both
David Yates and Harry Potter screenwriter
Steve Kloves to team up for a multiple-
movie version of The Stand.

There are no additional details at this time,
but if this is as close to a done deal as the
story suggests, we should be hearing more
details very soon.
http://dailydead.com/the-stand-new-movie-status-update/

This is the first I've heard about them wanting to break it up into multiple movies. That's a much better idea than trying to cram the whole story into one film. I still would prefer it to be a premium cable miniseries, but they didn't consult me.
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bad idea

from what i remember half the book was wandering around a deserted world. Kind of like frodo wandering around Mordor for half the book in ROTK. Good thing most of that was cut out from the movie of ROTK because it would have made for a boring movie.

i guess it can work if they cut the wandering around and concentrate on the anal sex between the fat geeky kid and the emo/gothic mother of the anti-christ teacher chick
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From what I remember 1/3 of the book was a detailed apocalpytic description of the end of the world with the virus spreading and all kinds of chaos going on.

1/3 of the book is the "walking around" that you describe.

and 1/3 is the final journey and confronation with the bad guy(s).

I think the biggest hurdle is the last 1/3. The book never had a satisfying ending. They need to come up with something different in my opinion, but that "something different" could be even worse. So I don't know.
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Ah, if only Bradley Cooper wasn't already playing Lucifer in Paradise Lost, he'd make a great Randall Flagg.
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From what I remember 1/3 of the book was a detailed apocalpytic description of the end of the world with the virus spreading and all kinds of chaos going on.

1/3 of the book is the "walking around" that you describe.

and 1/3 is the final journey and confronation with the bad guy(s).

I think the biggest hurdle is the last 1/3. The book never had a satisfying ending. They need to come up with something different in my opinion, but that "something different" could be even worse. So I don't know.

that was half the book having their dreams to go to the old black lady on the porch, hang around there for a while and then go to Vegas to deal with the nuclear bomb

i thought the character of satan or whoever that guy really was, was a waste. he had a little magic but it was barely used and never explained who he was.

the idea of all the engineers being evil was dumb

for a 2 hour movie they need to add some action and pick up the pacing. i saw the 12 hour version a long time ago and it was way too long

like the terminator and war games, the book is a period piece. it plays on people's fears of a new technology or political situation. if this thing is made into a movie then it will be a fall/spring release as a tax loss. one of those movies people would go see just to take a date on. the idea of genetic engineering creating a virus like this doesn't work in the 21st century
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Yeah this really wouldn't work as a movie. The biggest faults of the book are Mother Abigail (totally useless), Randall Flagg (generic moustache twirling villain), and "the stand" itself (terribly anti-climactic climax).

Really, what was the point of Mother Abigail telling the group to trek to Vegas when all that happened was that Trashcan man brough the nuke and God set it off? Did they really have to be there for that to happen? And in the expanded version of the book, God didn't even get the job done since Flagg survived (or reincarnated from) the nuclear explosion.
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Really, what was the point of Mother Abigail telling the group to trek to Vegas when all that happened was that Trashcan man brough the nuke and God set it off? Did they really have to be there for that to happen? And in the expanded version of the book, God didn't even get the job done since Flagg survived (or reincarnated from) the nuclear explosion.
The whole point of sending Stu, Glen, Larry, and Ralph to Vegas, was to prove to God that they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the cause. God will not help anybody unless they're willing to go "all the way." Our Catholic God is a God of Sacrifice, and it has been so all down through the ages.

The job was done because all the bad guys were concentrated in that one area, and the nuclear explosion wouldn't have happened at all if circumstances had been any different.

Flagg, and those minions like him, never die. They reappear in different times, sometimes in different guises. Flagg was around during the time Delain held a King named Roland The Good. Flagg reappeared to natives at the end of the book. There will always be a Flagg in "time," but as far as the Free Zone was concerned, he was gone, baby, gone.
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Originally Posted by al_bundy
for a 2 hour movie they need to add some action and pick up the pacing. i saw the 12 hour version a long time ago and it was way too long
It was actually only six hours, but maybe it felt like twelve hours?
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damn you're right, i saw this back around 1995 and it seemed like 11 hours long
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
Yeah this really wouldn't work as a movie. The biggest faults of the book are Mother Abigail (totally useless), Randall Flagg (generic moustache twirling villain), and "the stand" itself (terribly anti-climactic climax).

Really, what was the point of Mother Abigail telling the group to trek to Vegas when all that happened was that Trashcan man brough the nuke and God set it off? Did they really have to be there for that to happen? And in the expanded version of the book, God didn't even get the job done since Flagg survived (or reincarnated from) the nuclear explosion.
i read the expanded version of the book expecting horror and never got it
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the idea of genetic engineering creating a virus like this doesn't work in the 21st century
It doesn't? I think it's still relevant. We still research into chemical and biological weapons.
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M-O-O-N That spells I'm not optimistic.
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M-O- O-N spells Ben Affleck adapting Stephen King's The Stand
by Sean O'Neal

Mere weeks after Gwyneth Paltrow sneezed
out the apocalypse, one of her former
flames has caught the world-destroying bug:
According to Deadline, Ben Affleck will head up the Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, one of the novels that laid the groundwork for the modern generation’s paranoid conviction that we’re all gonna die. The project was first rumored in February, when it looked as though The Stand would be competing with Ron Howard’s The DarkTower opus—an ambitious undertaking that now lies abandoned on the metaphorical highway, rotting and desiccated and serving as a warning to other studios about counting their Stephen King tentpole franchises before they’re budget-hatched.

Undaunted, Warner Bros. has forged ahead,
even briefly considering Harry Potter
director David Yates to transform The Stand
into an epic trilogy—like the Lord Of The
Rings with scenes of homeless guys getting
anally raped. The report doesn’t indicate
whether that’s still the plan, but it does say
that Ben Affleck is writing his own script after which those sorts of decisions will be made, presumably. To put into perspective
the difficulty of condensing King’s sprawling novel—to which King just added 300 new pages while we were writing this sentence—
ABC’s 1994, Molly Ringwald-addled miniseries was barely able to cram everything into six increasingly interminable hours. But perhaps Affleck can save some
time by cutting the number of dream sequences in fake cornfields down to a more conservative 10 or 11.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/moon-...ngs-the,63885/

Well, he's is an interesting choice to helm the film. I just watched The Town for the first time last night and enjoyed it (despite not buying the central romance).

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