The Stand wasn’t originally planned to be turned into another miniseries.
In fact, if writer-director Josh Boone (
The New Mutants,
The Fault In Our Stars) had his way, horror fans would have already journeyed to theaters to see his big-budget take on the classic 1978 novel about two groups of warring survivors locked in a supernatural battle between good and evil after a deadly virus has wiped out most of humanity. So what happened? Development Hell, of course.
For the last decade, Boone and other filmmakers looking to readapt one of King’s biggest properties weathered the usual Hollywood creative struggles in trying to give