Ben Affleck to helm ‘The Stand’?
October 24th, 2011 - 3:28 am ICT by IANSLos Angeles, Oct 24 (IANS) Actor Ben Affleck has reportedly been roped in to direct the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “The Stand”.
According to Deadline.com, “The Stand” is a story about good versus evil. It focuses on a group of survivors fighting the Anti-christ-like Randall Flagg, and features dozens of characters and overlapping storylines running over many years.
The film by Warner Bros. Pictures was to be directed by “Harry Potter” filmmaker David Yates, but he opted out of the project.
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