After two television miniseries, Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stand is getting a feature film adaptation for the first time. Doug Liman, best known for helming The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, and Road House, has been tapped to direct the film for Paramount Pictures, according to Variety.

As Variety notes, “The project does not yet have a script, however, so development may take some time as Liman and the studio winnow King’s novel — which runs 1,153 pages in its unabridged version — into a single movie. But the studio sees the movie as a priority and is moving forward aggressively to make it happen.”

In King’s novel, one man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps, a rapidly mutating flu that – in the ensuing weeks – wipes out most of the world’s population. In the aftermath, survivors choose between following the 108-year-old Mother Abagail, or the powerful Dark Man, Randall Flagg, who has set up his command post in Las Vegas. The two factions prepare for a confrontation between the forces of good and evil.

A feature adaptation of The Stand has been attempted before, with filmmakers including George A. Romero and David Yates attached to iterations that never made it past development.