Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ now on hold so Josh Boone can direct a different King adaptation

The Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone is swapping Stephen King projects. While he still hopes to make a long-gestating film version of The Stand, he is hoping to make a film adaptation of King’s Revival first.

The Revival project was first reported by Deadline on Feb. 2. The book centers on a preacher who questions his faith in religion after his wife and child are killed.

Boone has also written a draft of the long-gestating Warner Bros. adaptation of The Stand, which is now based at CBS Films and Lionsgate. That project had been through countless hands at Warner Bros. and Matthew McConaughey was linked to it. (McConaughey is now attached to another long-gestating King project, The Dark Tower).

Boone, who is an avid King fan, asked King if he could have more time to translate The Stand into a filmable screenplay. At that point, they started talking about a film version of Revival, according to Deadline. Producer Michael De Luca picked up the option to the book.

Boone is also writing X-Men: The New Mutants for 20th Century Fox.

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