You’ve got to have confidence to take on a mighty tome like The Stand, and it seems David Kajganich does, as Vulture reports he’s been hired to come up with the screenplay for Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel.
The story starts when a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, resulting in most of the population of the world being wiped-out. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a foreboding, scary man, representing good and evil. The tale tracks various people who stories begin to intersect.
Originally Ben Affleck was set to both write and direct the project, but it was decided to bring Kajganich in after and the producers saw the work he’d done of a script for the upcoming remake of another Stephen King classic, IT.
There’s no production schedule set for The Stand (and considering the difficulty the book has had getting to the screen, it could be a while yet).
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