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A聽casting report floating around right now says that Matthew McConaughey might play Randall Flagg in the latest attempt at a聽聽of Stephen King s biggest and聽possibly best聽novel, the postapocalyptic road-trip epic聽The Stand. Even taken聽as a rumor, this information is supremely聽important and exciting, and I ll explain why in a moment. First, for those聽rusty on their Flagg: Even King s聽 usedta聽like him but now meh semi-fans聽know Flagg as the聽super-villain of all聽super-villains. He s聽the Joker and Batman at once, Darth Vader and Darth Maul, King Joffrey and Lord Tywin and even a little Tyrion. These are聽some 鈥?some 鈥斅爋f the聽books he menaces:
That stack聽contains聽three encyclopedias, four graphic novels, and 12聽full-length novels聽鈥?and they all feature聽and/or discuss Randall Flagg. That s a total of聽easily more than 10,000 pages. Flagg s not on all of them, but he s on quite a few, and you can feel his聽omnipotent omnipresence 鈥β爓ell, everywhere. I can t really tell you a single Flagg story without giving聽you a nightmare. He s聽scarier, badder, and more important than Pennywise, the Crimson King, and that聽mouldering woman in a Colorado hotel bathtub. Flagg <a href=http://www.styledepth.com/test.php?sale=True-Religion-Socks>True Religion Socks</a> s the antagonist in the novel mostly everyone agrees is King s strongest, and he s the 眉ber-nemesis in King s only series, The Dark Tower. He聽debuted in聽聽a 1969 poem King wrote on a place mat in a聽UMaine diner. A few haunting聽 have emerged over聽the years, but don t waste聽time comparing them to McConaughey 鈥?the guy s聽face and form change swiftly聽and frequently, and his aliases include (but aren t even close to limited to): the Walkin Dude, Marten Broadcloak, the Ageless Stranger, Walter o Dim, Nyarlohotep, Richard Fannin, Astaroth, the Covenant Man, John the Conqueror, the Bogeyman, Old Creeping Judas, R yelah, and Maerlyn, as in Merlin. Anyone in King s oeuvre with the initials RF could be and probably is聽Randall Flagg in disguise. So: Matty M. We re blessed to be alive during聽the McConnaisance, the still-happening movement in which聽the erstwhile rom-com king and naked bongoist establishes himself as a showstealing actor s actor. The聽McConaughey聽filmography is growing thick with grimy, delightfully proficient roles. Stuff like聽Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, Mud, The Lincoln Lawyer, and, of course, True聽Detective, in which聽McConaughey went Carcosa-dark and maybe locked up an Emmy in the process. He got his Oscar in March for Dallas Buyers Club, but 2011鈥檚 聽could ve won McConaughey the Flagg part before True D was even an idea-fetus in Nic Pizzolatto s psychosphere. Stand director and writer Josh聽Boone聽(The Fault in Our Stars), has it ll be one three-hour, R-rated version with an amazing A-list cast across the board.
Warner Bros covets <McConaughey> for Flagg although it s by no means a firm situation. ? Writer-director Boone has had McConaughey in mind ever since he won the <a href=http://www.mahaloshuttle.com/service/Tory-Burch-Outlet-Online-Thin-Flip-Flops-Handbags-Cheap-Wristlets.html>Tory Burch Handbags Cheap</a> coveted job, which he inherited from filmmakers such as Ben Affleck, David Yates, and Scott Cooper. They add that McConaughey was originally earmarked for the far less interesting Texan good guy Stu Redman聽and that it ll likely be up to the actor to choose which role he wants to play, should his schedule聽allow him to be involved.
Randall Flagg is the聽next logical movement in the聽McConnaisance Suite. The man s聽future includes Christopher Nolan s great- Interstellar and Gus Van Sant s great- Sea of Trees, and probably Magic Mike XXL. But聽those are all just movies. The Stand is an institution 鈥斅爄t was a聽major聽touchstone聽for Lost, it s a few years away from aging into the American literary canon, and the words聽 Captain Trips every time聽a pandemic聽plasters CNN.聽It s also nice that,聽unlike Pennywise, there s no real聽pair of boots聽McConaughey has to聽step into here. Flagg was portrayed onscreen once, in ABC s Stand聽1994 miniseries, by Jamey Sheridan, who didn t even come 聽to nailing it. And we re only talking about聽The Stand, here!聽Flagg, as that skyscraper of pages attests, is an immense figure. If Tim Curry s career highlight reel ends up with 10 seconds of that聽shape-shifting devil-clown, McConaughey s could conceivably聽include a meaty half-minute聽of Flagg. Especially if Ron Howard ever gets his聽Dark Tower trilogy-with-a-few-seasons-of-TV-in-between on (mono)rails.聽Because if when McConaughey plays Flagg in Boone s hopefully-pretty-good-or-even-great Stand, McConaughey theoretically gets a big聽invitation to also terrorize Roland Deschain, the Tower鈥檚 gunslinger protagonist. The saga-opening line聽鈥斅爓hich might be King s nicest聽sentence聽of all time, and certainly one of his most famous聽鈥斅爂oes, The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And the man in black is Flagg. On Vulture s pretty accurate聽 of all of King s novels,聽the Flagg books appear at nos. 58, 39, 36, 32, 28, 26, 22, 19, 14, 7, and 1.Constant readers often speculate聽about potential聽Flagg聽appearances in the Richard Bachman novel聽聽and聽the original story.McConaughey is reportedly also聽mulling聽a part聽in a film聽called Gold, by Syriana director聽Stephen Gaghan. That s not something I can even聽think about right now, if it has even the slightest possibility of threatening McConauhflagg.The rights to King s聽works are likely聽convoluted enough that聽a聽Dark Tower project and <a href=http://www.styledepth.com/test.php?sale=New-Gucci>Gucci Wallet</a> a聽Stand film would feature zero intentional overlap 鈥?but can I posit that聽McConauhflagg聽is聽a sweet聽enough idea to warrant the launch of a well-designed filmic Kingverse along the lines of the Marvelverse?
