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No, Rob, "The Stand" is one approximately 1,000 page novel split into three parts. If he does the logical thing and makes each third its own movie, it's not unreasonable that it could potentially be fantastic. As you said, he's a very solid director, so until we hear about some batshit change decided upon by either Affleck or the meddling executives, I'm going to be cautiously optimistic.

Of course, no matter what happens, I'm pretty certain it will end up better than the shitty television miniseries from the '90s...

M-O-O-N, that spells questionable.

"Okay, this isn't the end of the world."

Heh heh.

AFFLECK WAS DA BOMB IN PHANTOMS, YO!

You can get Scorsese to direct and still don't think it'll work, the Stand is just too huge and sweeping to fit into a big-screen film. True, you'd get more of the outbreak itself and such but still doubt you can capture its power in a big-screen series.

Who the hell could he play? I gotta say, if they stick him as Stu I'll be a little upset; he just doesn't portray the folksy simplicity or trustworthiness he'd need for the part. Maybe the singer (whose name I can't remember)? Or Nick? Or Lloyd? Personally, I'd like to see what he'd do with a roll like the Trashcan Man. That could be really awesome.

Could we worse. He could be starring in it.

Affleck is a good director. As long as the source material is about what he knows. So, if we want this to be any good, all the characters that were scattered around the country will have to be from Boston, trek around the city of Boston, and finally congregate all together in Boston, and then have a final showdown in the town square of Boston. It should be wicked awesome.

While i do agree with you switching from Yates to Affleck is a head scratcher, and like you said he has shown to be quite a capable director (personally I would say he is a good director). He may be up to the challenge, directing may be where his talent lies. It certainly isn't acting.

Good God this site has the worst kind of nerds.  "Ewww Ben Affleck?"  The Town was really good and Gone Baby Gone was fantastic.  He's a seriously competent director and either one of his movies is better than any of the Harry Potter movies.

I've always felt Ben Affleck had some nerd cred deep down, even though he looks like a jock.  So I'm fine with him taking on The Stand.

What's still remain unclear is if this is a "directing only" type of gig, or is he going to star in it as well? Because from what I've seen in "The Town", Affleck does a HELL of a lot better job in directing instead of acting.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt (mostly for Gone Baby Gone) but I really hope he doesn't decide to cast himself as Stu.

Maybe they figure the Stand is going to suck, anyway, and why not pass it off to Ben Affleck?  The poor guy has suffered all sorts of grief thanks to being the "dumb one" in his best friendship with Matt Damon, to being JLo's lap dog.  Screwing up the Stand will just be another feather in his supposed dunce cap.  It seems like the Stand is one of those projects that is just so vast that Hollywood continually figures it can't do it justice, and it seems a bit like Dune, too, wherein the zeitgeist has passed.  A know for a while, people loved the Stand and everything by Stephen King, but now he just seems like any other working writer and the Stand is the subject of mocking articles about its length.

*shrug* I'll give it its day in court.

Short answer:  Affleck probably committed to less up front money.  The Potter guy knows he has a track record of making movies that draw children (ignoring the fact that it's Harry Potter, so two hours of the animatronic corpse of John Houseman flipping pages while Hagrid farts the Battle hymn of the Republic would have drawn money), so he's probably asking for a big chunk of change up front, while I'm sure Affleck took a percentage of the back end.

Hah.  Back end.

"Okay, this isn't the end of the world."

I see what you did there.

Ben Affleck isn't something to necessarily worry about; agreed. He's proven to me he can direct good films.

Plus, doesn't he have a screenwriting Oscar he co-won with Matt Damon? So he's not unfamiliar with working behind the camera.

Ugh.  The Stand had an ending so laughably shitty, it permanently turned me off to Stephen King.  I can only hope Affleck "strays from the source material."

guess warners wanted  some one with some cred already to help them do the stand. worse thing ben proves he is a good director and tries to stay true to the stand as much as possible. makes it suceed. or ben fails and screws up the stand and joins kubric as one of the few people steven king can not stand their version of his work. we just have to wait and see what ben does with the stand

The Stand miniseries wasn't perfect, but there's no need to remake it as a series of movies. King's stuff generally translates to the miniseries format better than movies anyway, and quite frankly there's never going to be a better Trashcan Man than Matt Frewer's dead-on depiction.

oh, god, it's full of suck

Why not Yates?  $$$$ probably.

I have a fair amount of respect for Affleck the director.  Looking forward to his interpretation of the material.