Liman also is a collaborator of Tom Cruise, helming the well-regarded 2014 original sci-fi movie The Edge of Tomorrow as well as American Made. He is now working on Deeper, an underwater supernatural thriller that is being targeted for Cruise and Ana de Armas.

Filmmaker Doug Liman is attached to direct a feature film of Stephen King's "The Stand" for Paramount Pictures.

If not even television miniseries can manage to adapt the entire story successfully, how is a film supposed to do so?