{"id":16290,"date":"2011-08-11T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16290"},"modified":"2011-08-11T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:37:45","slug":"david-yates-to-direct-stephen-kings-the-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/david-yates-to-direct-stephen-kings-the-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"David Yates to direct Stephen King&#8217;s The Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16292\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/david-yates-to-direct-stephen-kings-the-stand\/attachment\/the_stand_cover\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16292\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"The_Stand_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The_Stand_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Harry Potter director David Yates is in the final phase of negotiations to helm the long awaited adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/dark-tower-tv-series-officially-dead\/\">Stephen King<\/a>&#8216;s 1978 horror\/fantasy novel <em>The Stand<\/em>, bringing on board his Potter collaborator Steve Kloves as writer.<\/p>\n<p>The last time The Stand was adapted it was as a 1994 TV miniseries spread across four two hour episodes, but the plan is to turn this movie into the first part of a trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no release date as yet, but we&#8217;ll post more news as it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may have lost Dark Tower, but can the Harry Potter director bring this Stephen King property to life at least?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":16292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,140,3],"tags":[82,608,2080],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The_Stand_cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}