I'm not too sure if I should be happy about this or not. But at least it seems that they are serious about trying to turn the book into a good movie...
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Ben Affleck to direct Stephen King's The Stand?
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eh, lately movies based on his books have been done by worse directors so why not
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They should turn it into a trilogy though. Can't put the whole book into one movie...
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Yeah I don't see a way they can have this just be 1 movie, if they condense all that material into a 2 hour movie they automatically fail.
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i think that Ben Affleck would be able to make it. but WB would probably make him cut it down. Like for The Town his cut was over 4 hours, and it had longer action scenes, character development, but he knew that WB wouldnt want it that long so he cut it down to 2 hours 50 minutes and they still made him cut it more
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it was a TV movie/mini series. All those TV stephen king movies/mini series sucked I thought.
I dunno that's the thing about his books sometimes they are just too hard to make into good movies. He's got so many of them it's hit & miss. Stand by me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Needful Things and I guess Pet Sematary are all dope. I'm sure there are a couple others. I don't count The Shining since Kubrik made it his own dope ass movie which totally blew away King's version (with the guy from Wings starring in it lol) which was whack. Then there are a bunch of crappy ones like The Thinner, Sleepwalkers, 1408, etc etc etc.
I dunno that's the thing about his books sometimes they are just too hard to make into good movies. He's got so many of them it's hit & miss. Stand by me, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, Needful Things and I guess Pet Sematary are all dope. I'm sure there are a couple others. I don't count The Shining since Kubrik made it his own dope ass movie which totally blew away King's version (with the guy from Wings starring in it lol) which was whack. Then there are a bunch of crappy ones like The Thinner, Sleepwalkers, 1408, etc etc etc.
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yea lol, the first half was awesome, especially in the uncut version when he had crazy shit like black militants taking over news stations and raping people on air, then a huge televised shoot out. lol.
you're right tho stephen king will go off on some light vs dark goofy shit all the time. the whole character development wiht the good guys sitting around getting shit up and running again was like that show the colony, hella boring
you're right tho stephen king will go off on some light vs dark goofy shit all the time. the whole character development wiht the good guys sitting around getting shit up and running again was like that show the colony, hella boring
Affleck is a shitty actor but he is a good director, this has potential but only time will tell.
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i liked the first two episodes of the mini series, last two were shitty. the guy who was randall flagg was dope tho
this new could be cool. i dunno how good choice affleck actually is, gone baby gone and the town are good movies, but they're little crime stories and the stand is fucking epic and massive, so im not sure if he can make it work. we'll see
this new could be cool. i dunno how good choice affleck actually is, gone baby gone and the town are good movies, but they're little crime stories and the stand is fucking epic and massive, so im not sure if he can make it work. we'll see
Now it's going to be 4 movies. Starring McConaughey as Randall Flag...
Matthew McConaughey to take The Stand for Stephen King adaptation | Film | The Guardian
Matthew McConaughey to take The Stand for Stephen King adaptation | Film | The Guardian
wth?
Damn these harry potter, twilight and hunger games movies making it a profitable idea for movie companies to have like 42 sequels to tell a story
Damn these harry potter, twilight and hunger games movies making it a profitable idea for movie companies to have like 42 sequels to tell a story
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Have you read the book? It's like more than a thousand pages. If they really want to do the book justice, they have to do this. One movie would not tell the story...
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the guy who directed the fault in our stars took over for ben affleck? might be a downgrade idk i never watched that shit lol
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yeah and the mini series couldn't do justice, 4 1h 30min long episodes felt too short. now we get 4 probably almost 3 hour long movies. should be good. mcconaughey as flagg is on point casting
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