Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The Wrap has the scoop on the latest development in the wide, wide world of Stephen King adaptation. Remember how Dark Tower's big claim to fame was its release strategy that would split the story between a film series and a TV series? Looks like Warner Bros, Showtime and Josh Boone are going to beat Roland to the punch and put their Captain Tripps-diseased mitts on that idea.
That's right, The Stand is being developed as both one three hour long epic film and an 8 part mini-series on Showtime. The Wrap says they'll shoot both concurrently with the mini-series leading up to feature film.
I suppose they'll do all the origins of all the characters, pre-plague, in the mini-series and save all the exciting stuff for the big screen.
I'm torn. My instict is that they're half-committing to both forms of storytelling. Boone's going to have a helluva time making the feature stand by itself. Even if he is successful there, the Warner Bros marketing department will have an even tougher time convincing everybody that they can see the film without the eight hour prelude.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I'd rather see them commit to a full on pay cable mini-series or two epic films. I guess either way we'll at least get a Randall Flagg without a mullet.
Thoughts?
-Eric Vespe
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