At 77, acclaimed author Stephen King continues to influence modern-day pop culture, with his longest novel, The Standbecoming the latest of his works to receive a movie adaptation. According to the latest reports, Paramount Pictures has enlisted Doug Limanwho is particularly famous for helming unconventional action flicks, to direct the big-screen adaptation of 1978’s The Stand.

Doug Liman to direct a movie based on Stephen King’s The Stand for Paramount

Paramount Pictures is teaming up with the Edge of Tomorrow director to bring Stephen King’s The Stand, which also happens to be the longest novel that the 12-time Bram Stoker Award winner has written, to the theaters.

Per The Hollywood Reporterin addition to taking over the directorial responsibilities, Doug Liman will also produce the project along with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures. Published in 1978, before going through a revision in 1990, The Stand is the longest book that King has composed in his illustrious career, spanning a whopping 1,152 pages.

Set in a post-apocalyptic version of the world, the novel deals with the aftermath of a deadly pandemic that wiped out a big chunk of the planet’s population. The remaining survivors end up forming different factions, with a distinctive leader heading each group. As things unfold, the camps engage in a clash with one another, with the ambitious story culminating in an old-fashioned battle between good and evil.

So far, Stephen King’s The Stand has spawned two television miniseries. Mick Garris helmed the first adaptation for ABC in 1994, with actors such as Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, and Jamey Sheridan taking up leading roles in the project. While Garris’s take on King’s dystopian saga garnered positive reviews, the same cannot be said about Paramount+’s rendition of The Stand starring James Marsden, which came out in 2020.

As such, this is the first time that Stephen King’s The Stand will serve as the source material for a feature-length movie. Sources even claim that Doug Liman plans to convey the story in a one-off flick instead of tackling it through multiple films. Meanwhile, Paramount has yet to share any details regarding the cast or the release date of the novel’s big-screen adaptation.

Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.