Scott Cooper Replaces Ben Affleck To Write And Direct Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’
By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2013 11:39 am EST
Scott Cooper, who wrote and directed Crazy Heart and the upcoming Out of the Furnace (trailer here), is now in talks to direct and rewrite The Stand.
Until Cooper gets his new script set, there’ll be no cast set for the movie, and we don’t know if this will be one film or two. But with the casts of Cooper’s other two features including actors such as Jeff Bridges, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard, we can likely expect a stellar cast for The Stand.
King’s novel follows the aftermath of the spread of an almost universally fatal virus. The few survivors in the US are organized into good and evil factions, with a few members of the good camp infiltrating the opposite side in an effort to prevent further disaster being unleashed on the remnants of humanity. [THR]
