Tag: Stephen King
Ben Affleck Hires Screenwriter David Kajganich for THE STAND
Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has landed screenwriter David Kajganich. Previously, Ben Affleck has accepted studio’s offer to direct their blockbuster version of 1,100 page apocalyptic 1978 book, replacing director David Yates.
Ben Affleck to Make Steven King’s THE STAND
Sailing Noah’s Ark into the present is a theme that recurs throughout Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, where 99.6 percent of America and the world is killed by a biological weapon unleashed from a U.S. Military installation in California. Well, Ben Affleck has reportedly been chosen by Warner Bros. to shipping such a big vessel.
Silence of the Lambs’ Jonathan Demme Options Stefen King’s 11/22/63
11/22/63 is a sci-fi novel by Stephen King, scheduled to be published on November 8th, 2011, dealing with a time traveler attempting to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination; The Silence of the Lambs’ director Jonathan Demme has optioned the feature rights to King’s mammoth book and will write and direct as well as produce the adaptation.
David Yates to Direct The Stand
If I was David Yates, I would pack my bags and go somewhere far, far away! Because then I would know that I’m the man responsible for one of the most successful film franchises in history (Harry Potter) so, logically, I deserve a vacation.
Yeah, I know you’d do anything to get rid of me, but I’m not going anywhere because, unfortunately, I’m not David Yates.
And, Mr. Yates is unstoppable. And he will team up with screenwriter Steve Kloves (who, in case you have no idea, wrote every Harry Potter film except Order of the Phoenix) to adapt Stephen King’s novel The Stand.
Ok, nothing new in here, but this definitely looks huge. And what’s most important, Warner Bros is in the process of finalizing the deals for Yates and Kloves to re-team for a multi-movie version of Stephen King’s epic that goes like this:
“This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people.
Pet Sematary Searching For Director
It appears there could be developments on reviving another 1980′s hit Pet Sematary, the adaptation of the Stephen King novel that scared many teens in 1989, is making steps back to the big screen too.
Matthew Greenberg, who adapted another of Stephen King’s stories, the short one 1408, starring John Cusack, is set to turn in his script based on King’s zombie-scattered tale to Paramount. And executives at studio give information about seeking a high-level director to deal with material.
The original “Pet Sematary,” which starred fabulous Fred Gwynne and co-starred Denise Crosby and Dale Midkiff, is about a family who moved to a new house near the highway where their son soon is killed. Father buries him on mysterious cemetery where dead son alive like a zombie. It seems all is well again, until the son kills a person. Father has to find a way to stop his son before he kills the whole “dogville”. And with fashionable zombies at the moment thanks to a certain little show called “The Walking Dead,” now seems like the right time to save “Pet Sematary” from disaster.
Stephen King’s The Stand Big Screen Adaptation
Warner Bros. and CBS Films are teaming to adapt Stephen King’s mammoth post-apocalyptic novel The Stand.
That’s what we call big news! We all know that The Stand was previously released as a TV mini-series in 1994 with Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe, but this time, we’re hoping to see an extraordinary big-screen treatment!
One of the biggest books of all time, The Stand is an epic story of good vs. evil after a virus wipes out most of the American population.
Javier Bardem Offered Lead in The Dark Tower – Officially
What is this that is happening with Ron Howard’s adaption of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower while I’m asleep?
First, Christian Bale‘s name all over the internet as the lead or if you prefer the gunslinger Roland Deschain in the whole thing, and now, Javier Bardem? Easy, guys!
We’re here for an official update! So, it goes like this: Javier Bardem has officially been offered the role of Deschain in The Dark Tower but no formal negotiations have begun yet.
If he accepts the role, Bardem will play Roland Deschain, a gunslinger who’s on a quest to find the Dark Tower, which is said to be the universe’s nexus.
While formal negotiations haven’t yet begun, there’s a high level of enthusiasm internally that they’ve got their cowboy.
Naomie Harris in Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower?
Another casting update! Ok, we already know that Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen are both in the running to play the lead character Roland Deschain in the upcoming Ron Howard‘s adaptation of The Dark Tower.
So, we’re here to add another name to this project, because, according to the latest rumors, Naomie Harris is the front runner for the female lead, Susannah Dean!
In the novels Susannah Dean is originally known as Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker, two wildly different women trapped within the same body.
After suffering a serious brain trauma early in her life, Odetta’s damaged mind created the Detta personality, a cold-blooded and violent racist with intentions of killing both Roland and Eddie.
New The Rite Poster
Warner Bros has debuted a new poster for a movie called The Rite.
Directed by Mikael Hafstroem, who previously did the Stephen King adaptation 1408 and most recently did the period drama Shanghai, The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the devil’s reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth.
