If you were perhaps thinking that The Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone hopping aboard the adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand might speed up the development process, then your hopes are about to be temporarily dashed, as he's found a new project and is putting his Stand duties on hold to focus on it.
The new movie can all be blamed on... Stephen King. Yes, Boone has written an adaptation of King's 2014 novel Revival about a preacher who loses his faith in God after his wife and child die in a tragic accident. He becomes obsessed with the power of electrical current to heal, positioning himself as a God-like faith healer, all the while unleashing a terrifying new horror on everyone around him.
Boone is teaming up with Michael De Luca and King to develop the film and have offered Universal first crack at a deal to make it. He's also been working on a new TV idea adapted from Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novels that is apparently now set up with a network and ready to go public with its initial announcements soon.
So, whither The Stand? According to Deadline, Boone has in no way forgotten the sprawling tale, which has been simmering on a low heat at Warner Bros. for a while. Trouble is, the rights have now reverted back to CBS Films, which is deciding where it might go next. Boone reportedly has a number of actors verbally committed to working on it and fully intends to keep going on it, but Revival will come first on his schedule ahead of that and the various other more nebulous movies he's attached to.