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.

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

Stephen King's iconic novel 'The Stand' is being adapted into a film by Doug Liman, in partnership with Paramount Pictures. The film promises to explore the epic themes of good and evil in a post-apocalyptic setting.