Now that we’ve had a few days to let it soak in, how do you feel about THE STAND coming to the big-screen?
Well, regardless of how you may feel, The King…Stephen King, has taken to his Entertainment Weekly platform to express a few feelings of his own. In fact, he’s laid out 10 specific things he currently knows about THE STAND remake. Sarcastic, insightful, even a bit skeptical…the King never disappoints. Peep it…
Ten things King knows about THE STAND remake:
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.
Man, I hate to disagree with the King, but Jake Gyllenhaal? Seriously? I mean, I agree with the Sinise and Billy Bob bits, but damn. And what about that closer? Is THE STAND really that far off, if possible at all? What is up?
Gyllenhaal’s SOURCE CODE co-star, Michelle Monaghan!