Weirder still – Matthew McConaughey was reportedly in line to play The Stand central character Randall Flagg, who turns out to be the same “Man in Black” from King’s Dark Tower.
Released in 1978, The Stand itself follows a post-apocalyptic world in which a strain of influenza has decimated the population.
Keep in mind that the movie-TV hybrid is different from plans for a similar Dark Tower multimedia universe, which was last said to be moving forward at Amazon.