We haven't heard a lot of progress on The Stand film project in some time, and for good reason...there hasn't been any. While Ben Affleck has been attached to the film(s) for awhile, the movie adaptation is having more trouble getting airborne than the Superflu. When recently asked about the project by "Cinema Blend," Affleck responded, "Right now we're having a very hard time. But I like the idea--it's like "Lord of the Rings" in America. And it's about how we would reinvent ourselves as a society. If we started all over again, what would we do?"
Ben Affleck (who's attached to direct) has supposedly been working with David Kajganich over the last twelve months to pen a script but it doesn't seem as much headway has been made.
Personally, I think The Stand is one of the best American novels written in the last fifty years, and along with It, The Green Mile, 'Salem's Lot, and 11/22/63 will be the most well remembered books by Stephen King after he is gone. I sincerely want this film to happen (a trilogy would be best just because the book is so massive) but I don't want it to be a rushed Hollywood hack job that has no support and gets squeezed into one film. If you're going to do The Stand do it right, and do it justice. Otherwise, to quote Al Pacino for Heat, "Don't waste my motherfuckin' time!"
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