After a heist and a road house, Doug Liman is set to step into fantasy with an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. The novel was first published in 1978 and later in 1990 with an additional 400 pages.
Set in the United States of America, which has been ravaged by a virus, the novel follows the remaining humans who are forced to join two factions. One led by an elder woman and another by a faceless drifter called Randall Flagg, who has set up his base in Las Vegas. King has described writing The Stand to wanting to write a fantasy similar to The Lord of the Rings.
Doug Liman is set to direct the film for Paramount Pictures. He is set to produce the film along with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures.
Doug Liman is known for adapting unique stories with films like Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity, Mr and Mrs Smith, American Made, and Road House. The directorial duties of the sequel to Road House has been taken up by Guy Ritchie, who will reunie with Jake Gyllenhaal after The Covenant.
