Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Planned as Four Movies; Director Teases A-List Cast [View all]

I've never seen The Fault in Our Star and don't know too much about the director, but his comments make me think he may not suck (for transparency and disclosure, I both enjoyed and hated the early nineties mini-series.) McConaughey was never a name I would have thought of for the role of Flagg, but thinking about, he * could* make it damned sinister with his southern drawl...




“I really wanted to do an A-list actor, really grounded, credible version of the movie… I sold [Warner Bros.] on a single, three hour movie… So what happened is the script gets finished, I write it in like five months. Everybody loves it. [Stephen] King loves it. $87 million is what it was budgeted at. Really expensive for a horror drama that doesn’t have set pieces… They came back and said ‘Would you do it as multiple films?’ and I said ‘F**k yes!’… So I think we are going to do like four movies.”

“I can’t tell you anything about how we’re going to do them or what’s going to be in which movie. I’ll just say we are going to do four movies, and we’re going to do ‘The Stand’ at the highest level you can do it at with a cast that’s going to blow people’s minds. We’ve already been talking to lots of people, and have people on board in certain roles that people don’t know about.”

"So far, the only big name star who has been rumored as a possible cast member for the film is Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey (he’s reported to be WB’s “top choice” to play the villain, Randall Flagg..."

http://screenrant.com/stand-stephen-king-four-movies-casting/