THE STAND Will Shuffle The Chronology of King’s Book
The New Mutants director Josh Boone and CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand will make no reference to the actual coronavirus. And today we learned the miniseries will shuffle the chronology of King’s book.
It looks like we will meet the major characters in the ruined world, and then see flashbacks to their old lives at the time the pandemic hit.
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Vanity Fair writes: “When the new show begins, the plague has already struck. The first episode opens with survivors in masks and protective gear cleaning up a neighborhood full of the dead in Boulder, Colorado. These men and women are among the last the remnants of humanity, trying to restart society again.”
The showrunners said: “King does this great thing that we made the conscious decision not to do, which is to go to the 10,000-foot view of what’s going on. That’s not a luxury that our people have. What does the apocalypse look like from the ground where you can’t see what’s happening other places, you can’t see what’s happening to other people, you can only see your subjective experience?“
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The killer cast includes James Marsden as Stu Redman, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman. Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, and Henry Zaga as Nick Andros.
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They will be joined by Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Teddy Weizak, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Ellis, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, and Alexander Skarsgard as Mr. Randall Flagg! Marilyn Manson also has an undisclosed role.
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail — and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg.
Stephen King’s The Stand hits CBS All Access in the 4th quarter of 2020.
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