The Stand is counted among Stephen King’s best novels, but it’s mainly known for being his longest. It was first released back in the halcyon days of 1978, when it was already a pretty hefty tome telling the story of a deadly disease and the war between good and evil that stemmed from it. Then it was released again in 1990 as a sort of director s cut, expanded (to over 1,100 pages) and updated for the new decade, because King as an author had enough clout to do all that.
The book s length kept it from being produced for the screen for a while, stuck in development hell. But it was finally made into a TV movie in 1994 starring Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Laura San Giacomo and a cast of other actors still significant then. And now it’s back, because we’re all trapped in our homes and we’ve already binged everything from
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Bright Eyes members scored new ‘The Stand’ adaptation
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The Stand begins airing today (12/17) on streaming service CBS All Access. The nine-episode limited series stars
James Marsden (Stu Redman),
Whoopi Goldberg (Mother Abagail), and the score was composed by two members of
Bright Eyes:
Mike Mogis and
Nate Walcott. Both have extensive discographies beyond their work with Bright Eyes, and they ve composed a score together before, too, for the 2014 film adaptation of
The Fault in Our Stars.
With a very contagious and deadly pandemic, known as Captain Tripps, as one of its main focuses,
The Stand feels more relevant than ever in 2020, although how this adaptation will rank against the 1994 ABC adaptation starring Gary Sinise, Adam Storke, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Miguel Ferrer, Laura San Giacomo, Jamey Sheridan, and others remains to be seen. You can watch the trailer below.
about Stephen King TV shows. There have been quite a few! As you might expect, his reactions to those shows are all over the map, from pride and affection to outright disdain. That’s totally understandable not all adaptations are created equal, and some books are better suited to adaptation than others. If an author as prolific as King saw literally all his work go on to massive success on television, that would be weird and unsettling (and maybe a good premise of a novel? All yours if you want it, Sai King). So this is a very interesting read.
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