Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. To paraphrase the great Tom Atkins, I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is Josh Boone's adaptation of The Stand is on hold. Boo! Hiss! The good news is he's shifting over to another Stephen King adaptation.
Deadline says that the Fault In Our Stars director is a massive King junkie (his production company is called Mid-World Productions, do ya' ken?) and, with the permission of the author, has penned a screenplay adapting his recent novel REVIVAL.
Boone has a first look deal at Universal and the script is under consideration there, but as of right now has no studio to call home.
I'm a big King fan myownself and I did read Revival when it came out. The basic logline is that it's about a young preacher who loses his wife and child in a car accident and begins investigating the hidden powers of electricity, using his discoveries to become a kind of real deal healer... but it's quickly apparent that his motives in healing his followers aren't exactly pure.
The book teases some great Lovecraftian elements that I would love to see expanded upon a little in a feature film.
Revival is certainly smaller in scope than King's epic The Stand and I would take Boone having the time to write and make this movie as a sign of how hard it is to get a feature adaptation of that epic story funded and filming at a studio. That doesn't mean The Stand will never happen, just that it's always going to be a tough one to do right within the studio system.
There's a lot of juicy parts in Revival. I'd love to see who they cast as this film ramps up. What do you folks think?
-Eric Vespe
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