Director Josh Boone Says 'The Stand' Will Now Be A Four Movie Event "With A Cast That Will Blow People’s Minds"

There's confidence, there's hubris, and then there's Warner Bros.' developing big screen adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand." If making the leap from smaller character driven dramas to what was previously described as a three-hour, R-rated movie wasn't enough, "The Fault In Our Stars" director Josh Boone says the plans for the project just got a helluva lot bigger.

Stopping by Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On podcast (via Slashfilm), Boone revealed how his single movie version has now morphed into a massively-scaled quartet of films. "I really wanted to do an A-list actor, really grounded, credible version of the movie. I sold them on that and they hired me…I sold them on a single, three hour movie," Boone explained. "I went and got [Stephen] King sold on it, everybody’s really excited…I told the story non-linear and that was the way I was able to compress that book and get everything into that script... So what happened is the...