REVIVAL Mike Flanagan Is No Longer Working on New Stephen King Flick By Mike Sprague
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Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan was recently set to write and direct yet another King adaptation:
Revival. But over the weekend, Flanagan confirmed – in a round about way – his version isn’t happening.
[The Stand director Josh Boone and I] started emailing because I went on to eBay to buy a limited edition of Revival – a beautiful set of Revival, and Josh was selling it. I bought it, and he emailed me on eBay first when the transaction first started, like, ‘Uhhh, hi.’ ‘Oh my god!’ And so we got to go back and forth about Revival, being a project that Josh was doing first and then I also ended up not doing Revival. So we have that in common; we’ve both been through the ringer on that particular story.”
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The Stand is facing calls for a boycott after casting hearing actor Henry Zaga to play Deaf character Nick Andros.
A new statement signed by over 70 individuals, including Antoinette Abbamonte (
Curb Your Enthusiasm), James Caverly (
Chicago Med) and Dickie Hearts (
Tales of the City), has called the casting not acceptable . At the time of diversity and inclusion, this cycle of misrepresentation and unequal or non-existent employment opportunities for Deaf professionals in the entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the camera, must end, it says. This has been happening for decades; enough is enough!
The Stand review: New Stephen King adaptation is too safe to be memorable, but too resonant to be dismissed Had the show retained the novel s pacing, and opted for grief over gore, King s message of humanity s resilience might have carried more weight in these times. Prahlad Srihari December 17, 2020 13:29:06 IST Still from The Stand
Language: English
The Stand opens in a church where frontline workers in PPE kits and N95 masks set about the unpleasant business of disposing dead bodies during a pandemic. It s a scene unnervingly of the moment. While there, one of the workers digs through shelves and drawers in search of DVDs. The world that s left is going to need entertainment, he says, before declaring his ambition to open a drive-in theatre: Put up a big screen, double features on Friday night. Yes, it s all too unnervingly of the moment.