Scott Cooper ( Crazy Heart, Out of The Furnace) threw his hat in the ring for this increasingly expensive project, but it, too, never came to pass. eventually caused him to walk away from the gig. One iteration had Ben Affleck scripting and directing, but creative differences with Warner Bros.
It almost happened as a two- wait, no, scratch that, possibly four-part feature film series. It was, however, inevitable that some other madman would come along sooner or later to give it another shot. Sure, it had rough edges, and yeah, it may have aged a bit over the past 26 years, but Garris’ The Stand holds a special place in many of our hearts. The results were pretty damn good, all things considered, enough so that most fans have been content to consider that version as the closest thing we’d ever get to a faithful adaptation of King’s seminal novel. Mick Garris was brave enough to give it a go back in the mid-’90s, helming a four-hour ABC miniseries of The Stand penned by King himself. The subject matter is pitch-black, with folks quite literally being crucified on the streets of Las Vegas and every major highway in America choked with bloated corpses and abandoned cars. The story unfolds across a bazillion locations.
The cast of characters includes dozens upon dozens of players.
The revised, “Complete and Uncut” version published in 1990, generally agreed upon as the definitive version, weighs in at a colossal 1,152 pages, making it the longest standalone novel in Stephen King’s entire bibliography. When you get right down to it, one would have to be at least a little out of their mind to even attempt adapting The Stand.
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