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I'd really laugh if it actually did at least take place in Boston for the most part.

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Well that's an interesting turn I don't think anyone could have predicted.

He seems like a capable enough director, I'm down.

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yeah jokes aside...he's done solid direction w/ 2 so far (the first being better storywise). And he's currently doing one film right now. Sooooo maybe he's good enough to go big. Good for him if so.

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Given Affleck's latest projects, I've really grown to respect his work. This is great news!

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As a favor, since Kevin Smith helped out Ben Affleck in the past, Ben is returning the favor and is going to cast Kevin Smith as the evil and nasty Randall Flagg

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbn...765b2ca34821a2

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yes, I'm kidding.
(or am I.)

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Smith as Mother Abagail or no sale!

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M-O-O-N. That spells "snootchie bootchies".

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I would think it a good idea for this film to be done in three parts, this way it isn't rushed. There's too much good material for everything to fit in one single movie.

1 Part I: "Captain Trips"
2 Part II: "On the Border"
3 Part III: "The Stand"

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Jason Mewes as Trashcan Man!

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Considering they will probably be called "The Stand: ______", I'd lol if the 3rd movie was called "The Stand: The Stand".

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My life for, naga nooch!

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I could go for that.

And Kevin Smith as Randall Flagg...

...okay, not so much.

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This is the section where Kevin Smith will appear. It features him eating Taco Bell chalupas for 90 minutes.

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Even competently made, I cannot believe that this property would make enough coin for a multi-movie deal. There are passionate fans, sure, but I don't think that they could drive enough sales, especially since a serialized movie would alienate anyone missing the first one (and they could not just pick up the next book).

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I'm in the process of reading all the dark tower books, they should make that into a mini series. More action and even the slow parts cOuld be hurried through and explained better

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It's in production. It was going to be a movie and series followed by another movie, or something. Universal balked at how big the project was though, so it's at a stand still right now, IIRC.

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When George Lucas did a little sci-fi movie called Star Wars in 1977, who'd have thought there would turn out to be an exodus of excited fanboys out there? Enough to warrant two more installments.....but! the next installment, The Empire Strikes Back, didn't come out for three long years! And the third one, Return of the Jedi, took another three years!

If the fanboys of that genre could wait three years between films, I think that the same can be done with The Stand. I know the generation of "instant gratification" was either us in the 1990s or 2000s - I forget - but that generation (us) is older now, slower, mellowed, and infinitely more patient that people give us credit for!

They rushed the Matrix sequels, and Kill Bill, too. I don't think there's anything wrong with waiting. I think that helps to build up the craziness! After all, we practically had to wait 2 years between Sopranos seasons!

With that kind of timeline, I think Affleck could stretch and build his capital, and with more capital, better films come out of it. No room for cheese in "The Stand." There was cheese-galore in the TV version, as much as I liked it.

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...what? Did..you bump...yourself?

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Do I really have to explain this to you?

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Explain as you would a child.

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They should cast TOM CRUISE as Randall Flagg

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I know that there's a major twist around the halfway point of the novel. I know this not because my slow-reading ass has actually gotten there yet, no, no, no. I know this because in his book On Writing, the blasted author himself gives it away!

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You should have known something like that would happen while you're reading an author's memoirs. Just sayin'.

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I assume he's refering to the . That really isn't a twist or much of a surprise. And it's past the half way point. Or is there another twist I'm forgeting?

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There are twists all through "The Stand." Allllllllllllll through it. When you read it the first time, you're like "wow," "wow," "wow," "wow," after every couple of chapters. (At least that's how it was for me.)

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Specifically a memoir about the author's writing process, called "On Writing"! What else is he going to discuss, except things he wrote?

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:lol: Complaining about spoilers in a nearly 40 year old book.

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Well his oeuvre is vast, OK? I wanted to read On Writing and I'd only read so much of his other work. I thought he'd talk about this and that, I didn't know he'd discuss something so directly. And the "memoirs" portion of it actually has very little to do with his work proper, at least not for a large portion of it. If my memory serves me, that was actually the only spoiler of that kind of magnitude in the book.

King tends to pace out his novels so that something horrific happens every fifty pages or so.

Actually he doesn't talk a lot about his own writing. There is quite a bit about it, of course, but he predominantly talks about other writers and various aspects of storytelling-dialogue, character development, etc, predominantly using examples from other other authors. He uses some of his own too, but the book isn't as focused on him as you'd think it would be.

I don't care how old the book is, Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None have endured for decades based on their plot twists, just because it's old doesn't mean everyone will have gotten around to reading it.

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Jesus dies and comes back as a Zombie!

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I spent 16 years in Catholic school, I knew that one ;). Although I still don't get the rabbit.

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Fair warning: stay away from Danse Macabre if you haven't yet watched, read, or heard every horror and science-fiction story of the past 60 years. lol.

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I can't wait to see what Affleck does with this.

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I can't wait to see if he's still doing it.

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Last I read was that he was, but apparently he is having trouble trying to adapt all the novels into a good screenplay.

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Where the hell is Will Hunting when you need him? A lot of good he does not helping out!

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Here's an article on adapting The Stand as per Affleck from November '12

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2143718.html

They need to just make a 13 episode, Walking Dead style one off of it.

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After the worldwide plague (Captain Trips), the survivors are left to eat food from cans. Since food from cans contain a lot of sodium and preservatives, wouldn't the survivors be in danger of high clorestrol and high blood pressure, and die of heart attacks?

Stephen King never addressed this. Ruined the whole story for me! ;)

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One thing I hope is that Affleck doesn't get into it without his creative batteries fully charged, i.e. as the third or fourth film of a run of work. I think he's genuinely gifted as a director but this novel is an immense piece of modern mythology and it's going to take him running on all cylinders creatively to shoot it properly. I'd rather it be delayed a year or two than it be rushed and not the film it could be.

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I read the novel (short version) many years ago, a year or two before the miniseries premiered (1994). I don't remember anything that happened in either the book or the series, other than groups of survivors wandering around the American west after an apocalypse, divided up into good guys operating on a cooperative basis and a bad guy leading his mindless followers and some confrontation looming between the two groups. I remember finding the book engaging while I was reading it, but completely forgettable afterwards. I remember finding the miniseries completely miscast. That's all. I don't see how "spoilers" would actually spoil anything, since it's such an insipid, cliched plot. The value of the book was basically in experiencing what the characters go through, how they relate to each other, the mechanics of how they survive--those things don't spoil--not necessarily what "happens."