The director of Jason Bourne will bring the scourge of Stephen King to the cinema
Doug Liman is working on a film adaptation of the 1978 novel biblical. Until then, no one has succeeded in Hollywood …
The scourge (“The Stand“) of Stephen King could finally experience an adaptation on the big screen.
The director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow,, Memory in the skin) is attached to the feature film project developed by Paramount pictureswith Tyler Thompson de Cross Creek Pictures in production.
For the moment, no scenario has yet been written, which means that development will take time. Liman and the studio will have to condense the 1,153 pages From the 1990 novel in a single film. But Paramount Consider adaptation as a priority and advances at a sustained pace to make it happen.
Published for the first time in 1978,, The scourge has already experienced two adaptations in mini-series: that of 1994 on ABC, with Gary Sinise And Molly Ringwaldthen that of 2021 on Paramount+ (ex-all access), with James Marsden, Alexander Skarsgård And Whoopi Goldberg.
The epic scope of the novel – which mixes pandemic apocalyptic and mystical struggle between good and evil – has so far always complicated its adaptation to the cinema. Ben Affleck Or David Yates his teeth have already broken there.
Note that this will be the first project of Doug Liman with Paramount. The filmmaker recently signed for Apple TV+ (The Instigators) and Amazon Prime Video (Road house).
