Противостояние (The Stand)

[DandyAndy]

Джош Бун в интервью Slash Film

‘The Stand’ Miniseries Will Be ’70s Steven Spielberg Meets ’90s Oliver Stone, Will Embrace R-Rated Content

 

Director Josh Boone loves Stephen King. In addition to giving the prolific horror author a small role in his first film, Stuck in Love, Boone has dedicated the past half decade to adapting King’s work. One of those adaptations, a film version of the novel Revival, didn’t come together. But the other, an adaptation of King’s massive The Stand, will be a 10-episode miniseries on CBS All Access.

 

We recently spoke to Boone about his upcoming X-Men film The New Mutants, but he also supplied us with updates on The Stand and told us what went down with Revival. Constant readers of King will be happy to know that Boone describes his touchstones for the Stand miniseries as being both Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone, a combination that, somehow, feels just about right.

 

While a Revival movie is being made by Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan, Boone took a crack at it. As he explained to us, it was important that he make a Stephen King project for personal reasons, and, quite frankly, The Stand just happened to come together first:

I love that book [Revival], but you’ve gotta understand, I put King in my first movie as himself, I had written him a letter when I was a kid. I’ve told this story so many times, ad nauseam, probably, but I was raised by a very religious family, and I used to have to kind of sneak reading Stephen King. My mom would burn his books in the fireplace. So I wrote him a letter when I was young, he signed some books for me, I went back to him years later, put him in my first movie, Stuck in Love, as a cameo as himself, and so over the next however many years after that, I dabbled in a couple different Stephen King books and carried The Stand from Warner Bros. to CBS over the course of five or six years. It was really less which specific thing, and like, one of these things I’m going to make. Once I’d made The Stand, I’m not going to immediately go out and make something Stephen King-related, you know? It took so long to make that one. I loved Revival as well, but I love Mike Flanagan, and I think he’ll do a fantastic job on that one.

Meanwhile, The Stand managed to finish production shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down film and television productions around the world. Considering that the novel opens with a plague wiping out most of humanity, it’s either the absolute best or worst time for an adaptation of the novel. Boone is taking it in stride:

I know, right? It’s one of those things. Will you be pandemic-ed out by then? But so much of it isn’t really about that. It’s so much more what comes after [the pandemic]. But yeah, we’re excited about it. Couldn’t have gotten a better cast or a better group of people to make it.

As for the miniseries itself, Boone confirmed that he directed the first and last episode, with King himself penning the finale:

We were really lucky. I wasn’t there the whole time. I directed the first and last episode, I wrote the first episode with Ben Cavell and really worked on developing this for years with Knate Lee, my co-writer from New Mutants, and Jill Killington, who’s my other producing partner. We worked on this with Ben, developing this for CBS once I brought it over from Warner Bros. and got it up and running, cast everything, hired all the directors, and then right at the beginning, I shot the first episode and the last episode. And King wrote the last episode. So I already got to shoot an original King script, so I guess what I say is, I don’t worry so much about whether I made Revival or not, you know what I mean? [laughs] I got to scratch my itch. But we’re really excited about it. The cast is incredible. I brought Henry [Zaga] over from New Mutants and it has some of these actors involved in this project for years and years who hung on with me and stuck with me to go make it. We hired a bunch of great filmmakers and showrunners and just great people to help bring it all to fruition.

So, what does The Stand, a novel that combines supernatural terror, grand adventure, and grandiose excess, feel like on screen? Boone mentioned a surprising duo of legendary filmmakers as key influences while promising that yes, the fact that this will be a streaming series means they can embrace King’s R-rated qualities:

[We] thought about like Close Encounters and the way those Spielberg movies felt in the ‘70s, and crazy Oliver Stone movies in the ‘90s. Kind of merging those things to tell this epic, dark fantasy. I think it’ll be really cool. The main thing we have going for us that the original didn’t have going for it is that we can really do it at a really high level in terms of the R-rated content and things like that which just weren’t possible then.

 

[DandyAndy]

В интервью Comingsoon, Джош Бун рассказал о работе над сериалом и о предыдущих попытках адаптировать культовый роман

Boone, who directed the first and final episodes of the upcoming miniseries, has been developing the project for nearly seven years, originally planning a four-film adaptation of King’s 1978 novel before changing gears with CBS All Access for the nine-episode series instead.

 

“I brought a lot of the cast with me, but my focus primarily was on the first and the last and all the people I worked with, like Knate Lee, who co-wrote New Mutants with me,” Boone explained. “Our producing partner Jill and Owen King, they dealt with a lot of the rest of it, but that was a multi-year deal like this, where it took six or seven years to get it from one end to the other.”

 

This extended length of time developing the project brought the opportunity for Boone to get his hands on the scripts from previous attempts at adapting the novel, given that CBS had bought the rights to the novel from Warner Bros. and with them the scripts, including George A. Romero’s from the ’80s that would die in development hell, as well as Scott Cooper and Ben Affleck’s drafts, with both dropping out due to creative differences.

 

“Getting to read Scott Cooper’s draft was awesome, it’s very different from the book but it’s very cool and it’s very Scott Cooper,” Boone described. “There were some other drafts, like there was the Affleck drafts, I don’t think he was the writer of it but I know he was involved in the drafts. I read some stuff like that, I have always wanted to read the George A. Romero version, I’ve seen some storyboards of it, his Lincoln Tunnel storyboards. One of the best things we had is somebody who’s worked with Peter for years is our first AD, Nick Mastandrea, who worked on every George A. Romero movie, all the early Pittsburgh ones and through the ’80s. He was like horror royalty, so I had as many of those guys from when they made real movies with practical effects as I could.”

 

In looking at the tenth and final episode of the series, Boone revealed that King has provided the series with a coda not previously included in the novel and teased what viewers can expect in the expansion of the 823-page source material.

 

“King wrote us a lovely coda, which is sort of the story he’s wanted to tell for a long time that takes place immediately after The Stand that provides an additional resolution for Franny, who’s sort of not involved in the climax of the book, which I thought was really, really brilliant and a deeply moving script,” Boone excitedly revealed. “I was so moved to get to go make it.”

[DandyAndy]

Премьера — 17 декабря

[Пухтырь-богатырь]

Будем надеяться, что к тому времени сериал не станет актуальным...

[Dean Corso]

Будем надеяться, что к тому времени сериал не станет актуальным...

 

Он так и так будет актуальным.

[DandyAndy]

Тизер

[Mr. Wayne]

Сейчас проходит панель сериала в рамках NYCC. Может и трейлером разродятся.

[DandyAndy]

Трейлер

 

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[jjjs]

Не зна, не впечатляет.

[vinch]

Да вроде неплохо, ожидал худшего - обычно ожидания проектов CBS примерно нулевые.

Но именно трейлер довольно неплохой, в итоге может выйти что угодно.

[EMoushen]

Книга лучше (с)

[jjjs]

Книга лучше (с)

 

И старый сериал!

[DandyAndy]

в рамках NYCC

[Donnie Darko]

Трейлер

 

Это что-то на уровне Ходячих Мертвецов, а, может быть, даже выше.

[EMoushen]

Это что-то на уровне Ходячих Мертвецов, а, может быть, даже выше.

Каких сезонов?)

[Health]

стилизация под всратые сериалы 20-го века, по-видимому, отдает дань уважения предыдущей экранизации произведения. отсылочка

[echnathon]

Некоторые сцены прям один в один "Ходячие", да и цветовая гамма очень похожая. Хотя отличия тоже значительные - судя по трейлеру, будет много символических пафосных моментов, сюрреалистических снов и глюков.

 

Есть сомнения по поводу Марсдена, парень из сериала 90-ых был прост лицом, но с харизмой лидера, а Марсден... он для меня всегда какой-то хронический герой второго плана.

[DandyAndy]

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[Green Snake]

С чего людям Херд в роли Надин не смотрится, с учетом открывшихся деталей брака-развода с Деппом, она каст идеальный!

 

Интересно, какой там альтернативный финал. В романе был довольно средненький, да и в наличии проблема - как роман-катастрофа "Противостояние" просто сильно лучше, чем пост-апокалиптика.

[jjjs]

А негр тут кого играет?

[ajax]

парень из сериала 90-ых был прост лицом, но с харизмой лидера

гари синиз ? мне не понравился, слишком правильный, СЛИШКОМ. как коммунист из фильмов про войну.

 

негр кого играет

лари андервуд же! певец с вредными привычками

[Robotrek]

И старый сериал!

 

Это не сериал, а фильм из 4-х частей.

[Robotrek]

Он так и так будет актуальным.

 

На все времена.

[Танцор34]

Трейлер

Мне норм, но чего то сверх нет.

 

Это что-то на уровне Ходячих Мертвецов, а, может быть, даже выше.

Но это наверное неплохо.

 

Некоторые сцены прям один в один "Ходячие", да и цветовая гамма очень похожая. Хотя отличия тоже значительные - судя по трейлеру, будет много символических пафосных моментов, сюрреалистических снов и глюков.

 

Есть сомнения по поводу Марсдена, парень из сериала 90-ых был прост лицом, но с харизмой лидера, а Марсден... он для меня всегда какой-то хронический герой второго плана.

Из-за этого выглядит как-то осторожно. Не знаю как точнее сказать. Авторы больше думают о том как бы не напортачить, а не о том что бы прям удивить. Обычно в результате такого получается хорошая жанровая вещь, даже может отличная, но не больше.

[demetrio]

Очень жду!

 

Смутно помню телефильм, но впечатления были хорошие. Книгу читал дважды, в двух переводах. Очень понравилось. Благодатная почва для экранизаций.

 

С чего людям Херд в роли Надин не смотрится, с учетом открывшихся деталей брака-развода с Деппом, она каст идеальный!

 

Надин из нее роскошная получится. Лишь бы не халтурила. Надеюсь, экранного времени из-за звездного статуса у нее не будет мало.

 

Обычно в результате такого получается хорошая жанровая вещь, даже может отличная, но не больше.

 

Ну и это тоже будет неплохое достижение. Много ли хорошего про эпидемии (не зомби) сняли за последние 20 лет?