Since the publication of “Carrie” in 1974, Stephen King has eliminated more than 60 novels / novels and has written more than 200 news. He overcome serious drug addiction problems and survived a very knotty car accident. He directed “overdrive maximum”. He struck vertiginous peaks and deep and dark valleys, but, through all this, he has never lost his sense of wonder, nor his ability to grasp readers around the world with his words.

King has existed for a long time for having seen several generations of filmmakers adapting his work. The old masters like Brian de Palma, George A. Romero and Stanley Kubrick passed the torch to Andy Muschietti, Mike Flanagan and Edgar Wright (including the film adaptation of “The Running Man” must be released in November) – and he It seems that the following generations will continue to maintain the flame as long as his work is not prohibited from existence. There are so many king there, and so many ways to approach his equipment, that we should obtain several new adaptations – of novels and stories before not produced – a year.

I would love to see two or three films like The “in the big grass” by Vincenzo Natali “in the Grande” A year, but when some established administrators decide that it’s time to take King, they want to take care of one of his epics. He has several mountains of Mount. At some point, you think these books can be unsuitable. But when a filmmaker as talented as James Wan expresses his interest to succeed where others have failed, you cannot help taking it seriously.

During a recent appearance on the KingcastJames Wan, who produced the upcoming adaptation of Osgood Perkins of The news of King “Le Monge” (From the “Skeleton Crew” collection), he was asked if there was another story of the author that he would like to tackle. The man who gave us the franchise “Saw” “, the conspiracy” and the “malignant” franchise (I refuse to believe that we have finished with Gabriel) said that he had only eyes for the novel of 1978 which caused two terribly unsatisfactory mini-series. By Wan:

“I think the only one maybe for me that I would like to take, just because I know what it could be an epic film, it’s” The Stand “. I love” the stand “. The book is So big, I have the impression that a longer platform would be the right place for “the stand”.

Mick Garris’s ABC Miniseries in 1994 of “The Stand” ran 366 minutes, while the CBS 2020 mini-series arrived somewhere in less than 10 hours. Neither came to capture the post-apocalyptic scope of King’s novel because they did not have the budget to correspond to his visual imagination. Let us leave aside the fact that “the stand” contains bizarre tonal swings that, no offense to Wan, I think that only a second-tel Howl-a; If the practical The problem with “The Stand” is that you just can’t afford to achieve it to the satisfaction of people who have already imagined their ideal version several times, perhaps let it be. Some sagas, such as “The Dark Tower”, belong to the page.

Consider this as a provocation, Mr. Wan. Prove me wrong.