The Stand
Cast James Marsden as Stu Redman; Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith; Owen Teague as Harold Lauder; Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg; Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail; Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood; Amber Heard as Nadine Cross; Henry Zaga as Nick Andros; Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen; Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman; Irene Bedard as Ray Brentner; Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid
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The end of the world never looked so phlegmy.
Forget the zombies. Forget the giant meteors. Here, the apocalypse comes with a cough and a wheeze. The flu-like disease, called “Captain Trips” by the masses, tears across the planet like a disgusting tsunami, consuming everyone in its congested path. One day you have a little tickle in your throat. The next, you’re dead and probably no one’s alive to bury you. It’s the mother of all pandemics one so terrible to make the Black Death look mild by comparison. Once you get it, you have no hope. Most of the world’s people
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Christmas comes early for Stephen King fans this year, as last week marked the premiere of CBS All Access’
The Stand, a new, nine-part adaptation of King’s post-apocalyptic riff on
Lord Of The Rings. There’s an unexpected timeliness to the story’s post-pandemic landscape, in which plague survivors are supernaturally drawn to opposing camps, but don’t go in expecting another
Contagion. As with King’s novel, the CBS limited series is primarily about what happens
after 99.4% of the world’s population is gone. That much is made clear in the premiere, which, in a departure from King’s novel, begins in the wake of what society names Captain Trips.
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CS Interview: Showrunner/Co-Creator Benjamin Cavell on The Stand
CS Interview: Showrunner/co-creator Benjamin Cavell on The Stand
Ahead of the series’ debut on the streaming platform, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with showrunner, co-creator and executive producer Benjamin Cavell (
SEAL Team) to discuss his work adapting Stephen King’s
The Stand into the miniseries, which premiered on CBS All Access today!
ComingSoon.net:
The Stand is one of the most iconic works of Stephen King, while also one of the most notorious in bringing to life on screen, how did your joining the project come about?
Benjamin Cavell: So about almost three years ago now, Julie McNamara, who runs CBS All Access, approached me. I had made a pilot that that she was the executive on several years ago and I had known her over the years as somebody who’s incredibly smart, and whose taste I really, really loved. So she approached me about doing this as a, as a limited series and I ju
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Review: Stephen King modeled ‘The Stand’ on ‘Lord of the Rings.’ TV has done it no favors [Los Angeles Times]
As a story of a world-gutting flu pandemic, Stephen King’s “The Stand,” whose second, superior miniseries adaptation begins Thursday on CBS All Access, could not be more timely. And as a story of good and evil facing off for the usual high stakes and of democracy versus autocracy, self-sacrifice versus narcissism it also feels very on brand for 2020. Whether that makes people more or less inclined to watch, I couldn’t say.
I have reviewed a lot of King adaptations over the years, and apart from “The Shining,” my King reading consists entirely of preparing to review TV adaptations of Stephen King novels. Sometimes they are better than the books and sometimes worse. First published in 1978, at 840 pages, “The Stand” was updated in 1990 with a few hundred pages more, and you will excuse me, I hope, if in this case I d