The Stand cast talks their surreal experience making a series about a fictional pandemic during a real pandemic Ethan Alter
Back in early January, when the rest of the country was focused on President Trump’s impeachment drama playing out in Washington D.C., the cast and crew of the CBS All Access event series
The Stand were having daily conversations about a strange new disease that was generating headlines in Asia. “We started to hear little stories,” Greg Kinnear tells Yahoo Entertainment now of the then-distant coronavirus pandemic. “If we were to have done a morning talk show in the trailer every day, I think the top couple of minutes of the show were always, ‘Hey have you guys been following this pandemic thing?’” (Watch our video interview with the cast above.)
Randall Flagg Recruits Lloyd Henreid in His First Scene From The Stand
In just a few hours, CBS All Access will release the premiere of
The Stand. The limited event series is based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King, who also wrote an all-new coda. Briefly, the story features an epic clash between good and evil, with the latter incarnated by the vicious Randall Flagg. And it will be up to actor Alexander Skarsgard to portray the personification of evil on the small screen.
The first scene involving Skarsgard’s Flagg has been revealed, and it looks pretty much as the readers of the book have imagined it.
Sonic the Hedgehog, video game adaptations have a lot to live up to. Sadly, it doesn t sound like Paul W.S. Anderson s big screen take on Capcom s
Monster Hunter titles doesn t break free of the curse that continues to plague the video game genre of filmmaking.
Resident Evil movies, in that it moves along at a steady clip, dispensing with all but the most rudimentary character details in order to maximize the stuff that excites the fans namely, striking compositions and carnage. Most of the time, during action scenes, you can t tell what s happening, but it seems to make sense to the characters, and the overripe sound design (which sounds like someone assaulting a couch with a baseball bat or smashing up the produce section at a grocery store) creates a kind of continuity through the Cuisinart cutting.
Henry Zaga on How the New Mutants Director Josh Boone Led Him To the Stand The Stand will see Henry Zaga star as Nick Andros, one of the post-apocalyptic story s main and in many ways beloved characters, but fans may recognize him from this year s
The New Mutants. Zaga played Roberto Bobby da Costa, aka Sunspot in the film, which was directed by Josh Boone, who developed and directed The Stand. And according to Zaga, it was working with Boone on
In an interview with ComicBook.com, Zaga said that working with Boone on
The New Mutants was an amazing experience and he spoke highly of the director s passion for his work.
The Stand Executive Producers on the Responsibility of Getting the Adaptation Right
The Stand is an epic book. Not only is the story of humanity s last stand in a battle of good versus evil in a world brought to the brink by a pandemic itself one that has been compared to the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, but the novel is long one and is beloved by readers all around the world. Adapting such a well-known and beloved book is something that executive producers Benjamin Cavell and Taylor Elmore didn t have reservations about but did feel a responsibility to get right.