the stand

In a cinematic landscape where franchises and known properties are a studio's biggest priority, some projects cannot be killed no matter how hard it is to get them made. Witness Warner Brothers' big screen adaptation of 'The Stand,' which now has a fourth director in talks to helm the production.

Warner Brothers has been trying to adapt Stephen King's 'The Stand' for a while now. First they had 'Harry Potter''s David Yates on the project, then Ben Affleck was on for while before he got busy with other things (like playing Batman), so they brought in Scott Cooper, the writer/director of 'Crazy Heart' and 'Out of the Furnace.' But it's been revealed that Cooper's off the project, so now what

Stephen King's 'The Stand' is certainly a massive undertaking for any director, which is why it's understandable when Ben Affleck says he's having a hard time with the project right now.

When one of America’s most prolific writers sits down to work on a novel, what do you suppose he listens to, if anything? If you said bands like Metallica, and Anthrax, pat yourself on the back, because you are correct! In a interview in The Atlantic, the novelist who brought us The Shining, The Stand, and many other horror novels, Stephen King also says he isn’t much of an Ozzy Osbourne or B