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Doug Liman to Tackle Stephen King Epic ‘The Stand’ For Paramount

Liman is attached to direct the feature and will produce along with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures.

The book, first published in 1978 then revised in 1990, is a bar-setting literary masterpiece that has influenced pop culture, from television shows such as Lost to musical acts such as Metallica to various forms of post-apocalyptic literature. An ambitious story of good vs. evil, it takes place in an America after a virus wipes out most of the population and follows dozens of characters in overlapping storylines running over many years. And while readers root for the characters such as the Trashcan Man and Mother Abigail, the final showdown came down to a group of survivors fighting the Antichrist-like Randall Flagg in the wasteland known as Las Vegas.

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