Stephen King’s The Stand Miniseries Headed to Showtime?

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A new live action version of the masterful Stephen King tale The Stand is something we’ve been talking about here for a long while. Almost as long as The Dark Tower even. Today The Wrap is reporting that in addition to the proposed movie, Warner Bros., CBS Films, and writer-director Josh Boone are in talks to mount an eight-part TV series for Showtime.

Before it hits a movie theater near you, Stephen King‘s epic post-apocalyptic novel The Stand may take a revolutionary detour to the small screen as Warner Bros. and CBS Films are in talks with Showtime to mount an eight-part miniseries that will culminate in a big-budget feature film.

Josh Boone, the Fault in Our Stars director who boarded The Stand in February 2014, will write and direct the star-studded miniseries, which is expected to start shooting early next year as one cohesive production, according to insiders.

The Stand chronicles an epic battle between good and evil after the American population is all but wiped out by a deadly virus. The story follows a group of survivors who fight against an Antichrist-like figure named Randall Flagg.

A miniseries will allow Boone to cover more of King’s epic book than one, three-hour movie. The same thinking was once applied to King’s Dark Tower series, which never got off the ground, though The Stand offers an ensemble-driven story that may be better suited for a groundbreaking adaptation.

King is expected to be involved in some capacity along with producers Roy Lee and Jimmy Miller, and high-level meetings amongst the filmmaking team are taking place next week to finalize the ambitious multi-platform plan.

Originally published in 1978, The Stand achieved cult-like status by the time it was re-released in 1990 with additions and revisions by King. The influential novel was adapted as a TV miniseries in 1994 starring Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, and Rob Lowe.

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