STEPHEN KING LISTS 10 REASONS WHY THE STAND WON'T WORK AS A TWO-HOUR MOVIE

Best selling author and former writer for Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of ten reasons why a two-hour version of his book The Stand would not work as a two hour movie. If you remember The Stand was made into a miniseries for ABC back in 1994 which you can catch every now and again on SyFy, and was directed by renowned horror director Mick Garris. In my opinion very few of his books have worked as movies my choices being Misery, The Shining, The Mist, Carrie and Shawshank Redemption which worked more as dramatic thrillers. If Hollywood does go forward with a two hour remake my choices to direct would be Mick Garris or Frank Darabont.

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.