The long-gestating, big screen version of Stephen King's novel The Stand is officially on hold, according to its producer. This comes on the heels of the news that its writer-director, Josh Boone, would film a different Stephen King adaptation, Revival, instead.

"Right now it’s just in a holding pattern trying to figure out how to best make the movie because we’ve toyed with breaking it up into multiple movies, making it into one, making it into two," Roy Lee told Collider.

"The latest draft, Josh Boone had written it and he was very anxious to make it but since then has written another script, Revival, which he’s gonna do beforehand, so we’re just waiting for that.”

Given the sheer scope of King's saga, a multi-film adaptation had always seemed the most logical approach unless huge swaths of the tale were jettisoned.

“That’s why we’ve been experimenting with trying to see what the one movie would look like," Lee explained. "If you do the one movie, you obviously have to take out a big portion of the book, so trying to balance what to keep and what to cut out was a long process because there’s so much to go through. So that’s why it’s been a long process. Right now it’s written as two movies.”

An eight-episode TV prequel series tied to the film adaptation was on the table at one point, but Lee says that was dropped due to logistical concerns.

Also nixed was a straightforward cable or streaming miniseries adaptation because King, according to Lee, "believes that his version—the miniseries that was done before is a very good interpretation of the novel.”