What makes this decision even more perplexing is the effort that King himself placed into reworking the somewhat divisive ending to The Stand for a third time via the 2020 miniseries.
The End of the World As We Know It is coming out before too much longer, and I would bet real world money that they want to maintain the rights to The Stand in order to more easily get the rights to the anthology.
Plus this lets them easily jump on the Classic King Reimagined trend that's kicking off right now, with stuff like Welcome to Derry and Flanagan's upcoming reimagining of Carrie.
Sources say that Liman and the studio have a particular take and that the feature would be a one-off, not a multi-movie endeavor.What makes this decision even more perplexing is the effort that King himself placed into reworking the somewhat divisive ending to The Stand for a third time via the 2020 miniseries.