Overview

• Paramount Pictures confirmed a feature-length film version of The Stand with Doug Liman at the helm.
• Liman will co-produce the standalone movie alongside Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures.
• A screenwriting team has yet to be appointed to condense King’s 1,152-page post-apocalyptic novel into a single script.
• Earlier versions of The Stand appeared as miniseries in 1994 and 2020, and multiple filmmakers previously failed to mount a theatrical adaptation.
• The story follows survivors of a weaponized plague as they align with forces of good under Mother Abigail or follow the sinister Randall Flagg