Josh Boone Talks 3-Hour Adaptation of The Stand and Return of The Vampire Lestat
You probably wouldn’t expect that the guy who directed The Fault in Our Stars would next be working on two big horror projects, but that’s precisely where the career path of Josh Boone is set to take him next. Read on for the latest developments regarding two hotly anticipated films!
In an interview with Collider, Boone first opened up about the status of his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, a film that has had several different filmmakers attached to it over the years. After all the false starts, it seems Boone is finally going to be the man to make it happen, and he says that all is looking well on that front.
“I finished writing the script maybe a month ago,” said the filmmaker. “Stephen [King] absolutely loved it. It’s, I think, the first script ever approved by him. [It’ll be] a single version movie of The Stand. Three hours. It hews very closely to the novel.”
“It was such an amazing process. I’m so familiar with [King’s] work and I’ve read so many of his books so many times over the years that it was just a really comfortable thing to be able to work with his material. He gives you so much great material to work with. There’s an abundance of it. So it’s not a book where you have to generate new material and make it work for a movie. He writes so cinematically and his characters are so sharply drawn. You don’t have to change much. [You use] a lot of structural things to condense a thousand pages into a three-hour movie, but it’s still at heart his material. I just made it work within the confines of what a single film can be.”
According to Boone, filming won’t begin until next spring at the earliest as it’s going to take many months to prep the movie. “We’re still early in the process,” he revealed. “I’m still meeting actors and having budget meetings and all that.”
As far as an adaptation of one or more of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles is concerned, Boone says he’s not yet attached to the project but hopes to soon be.
“Really I haven’t even officially been hired yet,” he admits. “I’m still in the process of trying to get hired. I’m always surprised when those things leak online. But I love it and I want to do it. I’m just in the developmental stage where I’m still kicking the project around.”
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