Anyone remember a ropey Stephen King adaptation of The Stand a decade and a half or so ago? Yeah, it was crap, so the Harry Potter team of director David Yates and writer Steve Kloves are working on a bigger, better version that will actually get a cinema release...
According to Hitfix.com, Yates is being sought for numerous big budget projects but has apparently set his sights on this one. The official book synopsis reads:
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defence 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. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
There is certainly potential there for a cracking horror. Yates needs to prove himself post-Potter and this could be the production to do just that.
