The buzz has steadily grown since Warner Brothers announced that they were teaming up with CBS Films to bring Stephen Kings epic novel THE STAND to the big screen. The studios and producers are sitting down as we speak to, as Boris Kit put in his article on Yahoo News, “…attempt to find the right take on the material.”ow they’ll manage to adapt the story to fit into a “one film” format is anybody’s guess....

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That’s right my beloved Bidites, two of our favorite words, “remake” and “adaptation”…

It has been suggested to break it into a trilogy, but considering that the 1994 TV miniseries failed to include enough of the story’s depth to make die hard fans of the book happy, will three films be enough? And more importantly, will they be jam packed with gimmicks such as 3D?!

I’m sure all of this will be discussed ad nauseam as more and more information is presented to us. As for right now, the only meaty morsel that they’ll dangle in front of our eager lips is that Stephen King will be involved in some capacity. No kidding… I guess “news” can be subjective huh? We can only guess when he’ll appear as the fouled mouthed redneck for roughly 8 seconds. Moving on…

The folks over at Entertainment Weekly were lucky enough to sit down with Mr. King and he let them in on 10 things he knew about the project:

1. No one will be able to top Gary Sinise, who played Stu Redman in the original ABC miniseries. He was perfect. When he says “You don’t know nothing” to the soldiers who are putting him under mandatory quarantine, you believe his contempt completely. My runner-up pick would be Jake Gyllenhaal.

2. I didn’t know anything about the remake until I read about it on the Internet.

3. You absolutely can’t make it as a two-hour movie. If it was a trilogy of films…maybe.

4. Molly Ringwald won’t be playing Fran Goldsmith this time.

5. Rutger Hauer is a little too old to play the Walkin’ Dude, and that’s too bad.

6. People who’ve seen Kubrick’s The Shining dislike the miniseries I wrote (and my amigo Mick Garris directed) even if they haven’t seen it. That’s always annoyed me. But the wheel of karma turns! This time people will probably say, “The miniseries was lots better.” BUT…

7. …historically speaking, movie studios blow the budget on things like this, so maybe it’ll be fun to look at. The dough certainly isn’t going to me, although if it is a trilogy, and if it makes a lot of money, I might be able to buy a chicken dinner at Popeye’s. Great slaw!

8. Molly Ringwald will probably not play the Trashcan Man, either, but Billy Bob Thornton would be cool. Billy Bob’s always cool.

9. They need to write in a lot of heavy-metal for the soundtrack.

10. M-O-O-N, that spells “you probably won’t see this anytime soon.” And when you do, Woody Allen won’t be directing it. Or Molly Ringwald."

Sounds to me like THE STAND, at least at this point. Doesn’t “stand” a chance to have a leg to “stand” on. How’s that for a “stand-ment"….err, I mean statement? :)

Written by HorrorBid columnist-Brock Lady

Source: EW