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.

The Stand,' the literary classic from Stephen King, will be directed by Doug Liman as a film adaptation for Paramount.

Here we go again The Hollywood Reporter dished on the details of a new adaptation of Stephen King's tome The Stand, which Doug Liman is apparently directing. And if you're thinking to yourself, "Wasn't there literally just a television adaptation?