Sounds a little soon - the first one is not that old.
The Stand is one of my favorite books. I thought the mini-series/movie was pretty good.
It will be 18 years in May since the miniseries premiered on ABC.
It was very good almost all the way around. My only casting complaints were Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec and, to a lesser degree, Rob Lowe. But Gary Sinise made up for all of them. He was born to play Stu Redman.
Here's the bad news. Ben Affleck will be directing it.