{"id":53215,"date":"2013-11-21T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=53215"},"modified":"2013-11-21T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:09:17","slug":"the-stand-film-loses-director-scott-cooper-in-ratings-quarrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-stand-film-loses-director-scott-cooper-in-ratings-quarrel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stand film loses director Scott Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_53217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53217\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Stand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53217\" alt=\"Gary Sinise as Stu Redman in The Stand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Stand.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Stand.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Stand-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Sinise as Stu Redman in The Stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The film adaptation of Stephen King&#x2019;s epic novel <em>The Stand<\/em> needs a new director, as <em>Out Of The Furnace<\/em>&#x2018;s Scott Cooper has dropped out as writer\/director.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/stand-adaptation-loses-director-658413\">THR<\/a>, Cooper, who is probably best known for directing Jeff Bridges&#x2019; Oscar-winning turn in <em>Crazy Heart<\/em>, has left the project. The site&#x2019;s sources suggest that Cooper wanted <em>The Stand<\/em> to be rated R, while Warner Bros want a PG-13 epic. There&#x2019;s also the suggestion that they are still no closer to figuring out if the story can fit in one film or if more will be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Affleck and David Yates were previously attached to the film, and the studios are now looking at a range of potential replacements including Paul Greengrass (<em>Captain Phillips<\/em>), Denis Villeneuve (<em>Prisoners<\/em>), Cary Fukunaga (<em>Jane Eyre<\/em>) and Daniel Espinosa (<em>Safe House<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Stephen-Kings-The-Stand-DVD\/dp\/B00009V8YC\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1385030616&sr=8-2&keywords=the+stand&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>The Stand<\/em> miniseries on DVD for &#xA3;4 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-53215-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qsMp2pZK-Cw&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qsMp2pZK-Cw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qsMp2pZK-Cw<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King&#8217;s The Stand movie needs a new director as Scott Cooper drops out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":53217,"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":[2615,3],"tags":[608,2080],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Stand.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53215"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}