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azulso · 3 years

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I finished The Stand comics and I would love that the 2020 version have more hours. So here is my "wishlist", with time onscreen per character:

E1 The End: main characters introduction, including Jesse (Frannie's boyfriend, father of her baby).

Stu: 25 minutes

Frannie and Larry: 15 minutes each one

Nick: 5 minutes

E2 Blank Page: main characters development, including Carla (Frannie's mom).

Nick: 20 m

Frannie: 15 m

Larry and Lloyd: 10 m e/o

Stu: 5 m

E3 The Dark Man: Randall Flagg story, main characters development, Alice Underwood and Peter Goldsmith dying and Stu escape.

Randall: 25 m

Frannie: 10 m

Harold, Larry, Nick, Rita and Stu: 5 m e/o

Or... first movie The Stand: Captain Trips

Frannie: 40 m

Stu: 35 m

Larry and Nick: 30 m

Randall: 25 m

Lloyd: 10 m

Harold and Rita: 5 m e/o

E4 Pocket Savior: Trashcan Man story, main characters development, Stu meets Glen and Rita Blakemoor dies.

Trashcan: 20 m

Larry and Rita: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Glen, Nick and Stu: 5 m e/o

E5 The Dreams: Lloyd in prison, Nick starts to dream about Mother A, Frannie and Harold out of Maine.

Lloyd: 15 m

Nick: 10 m

Frannie, Glen, Harold, Larry, Mother A, Randall and Stu: 5 m e/o

E6 The Nightmares: Nick and Tom meeting, Randall attack them in tornado form, people having nightmares about Randall, new characters introduction, including Ray flashback.

Larry, Nick and Tom: 10 m e/o

Joe, Julie, Mother A, Nadine, Randall and Ray: 5 m e/o

Or second movie The Stand: American Nightmares

Larry and Nick: 25 m

Trashcan Man: 20 m

Lloyd: 15 m

Frannie, Glen, Mother A, Randall, Rita, Stu and Tom: 10 m

Harold, Joe, Julie, Nadine and Ray: 5 m e/o

E7 Hemingford Home: Mother A story, Frannie and Stu relationship starts, Harold fall in the dark side, Stu team saves Dayna, including Dayna flashback, Ray meets Nick and Tom, they arrives in HH.

Mother A: 20 m

Frannie: 10 m

Dayna, Glen, Harold, Randall, Ray and Stu: 5 m e/o

E8 My Life for You: Trashcan Man story, Mother A, Nick and Tom have a dinner, Stu team try to do a surgery.

Trashcan Man: 25 m

Frannie, Harold, Lloyd, Mother A, Nick, Stu and Tom: 5 m e/o

E9 The House of the Dead: Nadine flashback, Larry team development, Judge Ruth Farris introduction, including flashback, she acts as confidant for Larry, Trashcan Man arrives in New Vegas, he's forced to help Lloyd to crucifix a man, Larry team arrives in Boulder, Mother A is suspicious of Nadine.

Larry, Nadine and Trashcan Man: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Judge, Lloyd, Mother A, Randall and Stu: 5 m e/o

Or third movie The Stand Soul Survivors

Trashcan Man: 35 m

Mother A: 30 m

Frannie: 20 m e/o

Stu: 15 m e/o

Harold, Larry, Lloyd, Nadine and Randall: 10 m e/o

Dayna, Glen, Judge, Nick, Ray, Tom: 5 m e/o

E10 Worms Inside Him: "Harold vs Stu" story. Overcome with jealousy, Harold schemes to murder Frannie and Stu. Mother A and her committee encounter a Vegas escapee with crucifixion wounds, who warns them of Flagg. The committee votes to send three spies across the mountains to assess the threat from Flagg.

Harold and Stu: 10 m e/o

Frannie, Joe, Larry, Mother A, Nadine, Nick, Randall and Ray: 5 m e/o

E11 The Betrayal: development of the committee before the spies travel to New Vegas, Frannie and Stu with Dayna, Larry with Judge Farris, and Larry and Nick with Tom. Nadine has more visions of Flagg beckoning to her, he orders her to kill Mother Abagail and the committee. She seduces Harold and convinces him to help her. While stealing explosives for this purpose, Nadine kills Teddy Weizak, one of Harold's few friends.

Dayna, Frannie, Glen, Harold, Judge, Larry, Nadine, Nick, Randall, Stu, Teddy and Tom: 5 m e/o

E12 The Vigil: Frannie breaks into Harold's house and finds his surveillance-room and explosives. Harold finds her and tries to trap her, but she manages to escape. Harold and Nadine activate the explosives just as Frannie arrives to warn the committee. The blast kills Nick.

Frannie, Harold, Nadine: 10 m e/o

Joe, Larry, Mother A, Nick, Ray and Stu: 5 m e/o.

Or fourth movie The Stand Hard Cases

Harold: 25 m

Frannie, Stu: 20 m e/o

Larry, Nadine, Nick: 15 m e/o

Glen, Joe, Mother A, Randall and Ray: 10 m e/o

Dayna, Judge, Teddy and Tom: 5 m e/o

E13 Fear and Loathing in New Vegas: Dayna Jurgens arrives in New Vegas where she secures a position as one of Lloyd Henreid's girls. She finally meets Flagg, who offers to let her go on the condition that she reveal who the "third spy" is. Dayna kills herself to avoid revealing any secrets. Judge Farris is spotted at one of Flagg's checkpoints manned by Bobby Terry, who follows her. He have strict orders from Flagg to don't kill her, so she can be tortured and force her to reveal the last spy. After exchanging several shots with Farris, Bobby eventually manages one direct hit to the Judge's head. From her hospital bed, Mother Abagail reveals God's will to Stu, Larry, Ray, and Glen: they are to travel to New Vegas by foot, and that "one will fall" on the way there. She then dies peacefully.

Dayna and Judge Farris: 10 m e/o

Bobby, Frannie, Julie, Lloyd, Mother A, Randall, Stu and Tom: 5 m e/o

E14 The Walk: Harold and Nadine leave Boulder on their motorcycles. Harold loses control on a curve and is badly injured. Nadine finally meets Flagg in the desert, but she has a belated epiphany that he is a terrifying demon, leaving her traumatized, catatonic and pregnant. Transported back to Las Vegas like a trophy, Nadine is installed in Flagg's quarters. Trashcan Man discovers a nuclear warhead, he attaches it to his sandcrawler and begins to drive back to New Vegas. Stu team encounter Harold's remains and Larry reads his journal before covering his body. While climbing out of a washed-out area Stu falls and breaks his leg; Larry, Ray and Glen recognize Mother Abagail's prediction and go on without him.

Glen, Harold, Julie, Larry, Lloyd, Nadine, Nick, Randall, Ray, Stu, Tom and Trashcan Man: 5 m e/o

E15 The Stand: Glen, Ray and Larry are given a show trial in front of a large public gathering. Glen mocks Flagg, prompting Lloyd to shoot and kill Glen. Realizing that she was never meant to live after giving birth, Nadine throws herself out of the window to her death. Larry and Ray are sentenced to be drowned in a swimming pool. Trashcan Man arrives with a nuclear bomb. A mysterious storm-cloud, "the hand of God", forms above the hotel and emits bolts of lightning that kill everyone present, then detonates the nuclear bomb, obliterating all of New Vegas and everyone in it. Tom finds Kojak and follows him. Stu is rescued by Tom and they witness the nuclear explosion together. Tom states that God "fixed" Flagg for what he did to Nick and the Judge. In a dream, Nick comes to Tom and tells him which medicine to give Stu, Tom saves Stu's life by treating his pneumonia and spends several weeks nursing him back to health. Stu recovers and the two of them return to Boulder in a snow storm via a Snowcat. Stu finds that Frannie has given birth to a daughter, whom she has named Abagail. The baby has contracted the superflu, but she is able to fight off the virus. In the jungle, Flagg appears floating before the primitive tribe. He kills one of their warriors with his dark magic and demands their worship. The tribe falls to their knees.

Stu: 10 m

Frannie, Glen, Julie, Larry, Lloyd, Nick, Randall, Ray, Tom and Trashcan Man: 5 m e/o

Or fifth movie The Stand Nobody's Land

Stu: 20 m

Julie, Lloyd, Randall, Tom: 15 m e/o

Dayna, Frannie, Glen, Judge, Larry, Nick, Ray, Trashcan: 10 m e/o

Bobby, Harold, Mother A, Nadine: 5 m e/o

Total time onscreen in the whole saga:

Frannie and Stu: 1h 40m e/o

Larry: 1h 30m

Nick: 1h 25m

Trashcan Man: 1h 5m

Mother A: 55m

Harold and Lloyd: 50 m e/o

Randall: 45m

Glen, Nadine, Tom: 35 m e/o

Ray: 30m

Dayna, Judge, Julie: 20 m e/o

Joe, Rita: 15 m e/o

Bobby, Teddy: 5 m e/o

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m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog · 4 years

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I've been to Bermuda and England and Jamaica and Montreal and Saigon and to Moscow. But I haven't been on a journey since I was a little girl and my father to my sister Bess and me to the zoo.

Stephen King, The Stand

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dalekofchaos · 6 years

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The Stand Fancast

My Other Stephen King Fancasts

The Shining

It Chapter 2

Hugh Dancy as Stuart Redman

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Fran Goldsmith

Charlie Cox as Larry Underwood

Daniel Radcliffe as Nick Andros

Mads Mikkelsen as Randall Flagg

Alfre Woodard as Mother Abagail Freemantle

Rosamund Pike as Nadine Cross

Sarah Paulson as Rita Blakemoor

Brendan Gleeson as Ralph Brentner

Will Poulter as Harold Lauder

Jamie Bell as Tom Cullen

Christoph Waltz as Glen Bateman

Sam Rockwell as Lloyd Henreid

Michael Rooker as Andrew 'Poke' Freeman

Ben Foster as Trashcan-Man

Danielle Panabaker as Lucy Swann

Laurence Fishburne as Judge Ferris

Naomie Harris as Dayna Jergens

Emma Roberts as Julie Lawry

Dean Norris as Barry Dorgan

Millie Bobby Brown as Joe/Leo

Elizabeth Banks as Susan Stern

Terry O’Quinn as Whitney Horgen

Eliza Dushku as Jenny Egstrom

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amber-angel · 3 years

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ok but literally WHY are stephen king adaptations always SO bad like i watched bag of bones in high school and it was awful like... you'd only know what was going on if you read the book but if you'd read the book then you would be annyed that the adaptation is so bad. like it's ALWAYS like that

EXACTLY oh my god watching this dumb shitshow of a reboot I was fully aware that if I hadn't read the book and watched the original that I would have no idea what the fuck was happening. And maybe they plan to explain it better (doubtful) throughout the next I think six episodes (they air one every week, for maximum scammage), but right now I guarantee that the only people watching this are King fans that have already read the book or just people who are horny for that skarsgaard guy. And currently they're disappointing both lmfao

Also there's me, I'm watching this 40% out of spite and 60% because I'll just watch anything with Fiona Dourif in it, but so far there's no Dourif so....

And like! I thought the original adaptation was ok! So clearly they're capable of being watchable, this director (the still unnamed man who is quickly becoming my nemesis) is just a piece of shit.

#asks #if you cant tell i am READY to rant about this #i loved the stand. both the book and the og series #and i was hyped when i heard they were making a reboot! not only that but it was going to be more faithful to the book!#(or ig i assumed that bc they were including rita blakemoor)#but so far it's just been trash #and im pretty sure it will continue to be trash #at least until fiona dourif shows up on screen. then it will be trash with one diamond placed on top

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favescandis · 3 years

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THE STAND cast posters from CBS All Access

Vegas group: Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, Fiona Dourif as The Rat Woman, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid and Kat McNamara as Julie Lawry

Survivors group: Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, James Marsden as Stu Redman, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor and Owen Teague as Harold Lauder.

3rd full poster added 12/10/2020 via IMP Awards and includes Amber Heard as Nadine Cross.

The Stand begins on December 17th on CBS All Access

#The Stand #Alexander Skarsgård #Alexander Skarsgard #Randall Flagg #Fiona Dourif #Nat Wolff #Kat McNamara #Jovan Adepo #Henry Zaga #Odessa Young #Whoopi Goldberg #James Marsden #Heather Graham #Owen Teague #Amber Heard #Nadine Cross

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filmreviewonline · 3 years

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The Stand Trailer - World decimated by plague with elemental struggle between good and evil

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The Stand Trailer - World decimated by plague with elemental struggle between good and evil

Here is The Stand Trailer and lowdown for the CBS All Access streaming service mini series. The show has some notable cast including Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden and Amber Heard.

We have a couple of features coming up with the stars and the producer so keep an eye out for those.

The Stand Trailer

The Stand outline

This is Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil.

Here the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. However, their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

The mini series is based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel of the same name. CBS All Access’ The Stand will close with a new coda written by the famed author himself!

The Stand cast, crew and release info

DebutDecember 17, 2020

Following the premiere, new episodes drop weekly on Thursdays Exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers Limited Event Series (filmed in HD)

StarringWhoopi GoldbergMother AbagailAlexander SkarsgårdRandall FlaggJames MarsdenStu RedmanOdessa YoungFrannie GoldsmithJovan AdepoLarry UnderwoodAmber HeardNadine CrossOwen TeagueHarold LauderHenry ZagaNick AndrosBrad William HenkeTom CullenGreg KinnearGlen BatemanIrene BedardRay BretnerGuest starsNat WolffLloyd HenreidEion BaileyWeizakHeather GrahamRita BlakemoorKatherine McNamaraJulie LawryFiona DourifRatwomanNatalie MartinezDaynaHamish LinklaterDr Jim EllisDaniel SunjataCobb ProductionCBS Television StudiosExecutive Producers

Benjamin Cavell Taylor Elmore Will Weiske Jimmy Miller Roy Lee Richard P Rubinstein

Josh Boone serves as director and an executive producer for the series premiere and final episode

ProducersJake Braver, Jill Killington, Owen King, Knate Lee, and Stephen Welke.

#Alexander Skarsgard #Amber Heard #James Marsden #Jovan Adepo #Odessa Young #stephen king #The Stand (2020 tv)#Whoopi Goldberg

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stephen-king-deutschland · 5 years

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Und weiter gehts beim Cast von The Stand

Der amerikanische Schauspielerin Heather Graham übernimmt die Rolle der Rita Blakemoore.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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The Stand Episode 2: How Larry Underwood Enters Stephen King’s Tale

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This article contains spoilers for episode 2 of The Stand.

In episode 2 of the new CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, “Pocket Savior,” we are introduced to Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), a musician and drug addict who’s on the cusp of success when the Captain Trips superflu circles the globe and lays waste to 99% of the population.

We also meet Lloyd Henreid (Nat Wolff), a convicted murderer who does everything possible to stay alive behind bars until, alone, starving and losing his mind, he comes suddenly face to face with the Dark Man, Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard), who makes an offer that Lloyd can’t refuse.

Like the series premiere, “The End,” in which we met fellow major characters Stu Redman (James Marsden), Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Mother Abigail (Whoopi Goldberg), “Pocket Savior” doesn’t tell the story of Larry or the others in linear fashion.

In a major decision that has turned into a point of debate even before the limited series’ December 17 launch, Cavell and fellow executive producer Josh Boone chose to play with the structure of King’s narrative, showing our protagonists already building their community in the Boulder Free Zone before flashing back to reveal how they got there.

“I know it feels to everybody like a big choice, and obviously it is,” says Cavell when Den of Geek speaks with him via phone. “But it just felt very clear to me, and to us from the beginning, that we didn’t want to make people sit through three episodes of the world dying before we got to the meat of our story. I mean, look, those first 300 pages of the book are wonderful, and I certainly remember them from the first time I read the book, but it’s also not exactly what the book is about.”

What The Stand is about, Cavell continues, is what comes after Captain Trips clears out the world, which is “this elemental struggle for the soul of what’s left,” he explains. “And these questions about how you go about rebuilding, and what constitutes a human society. If you had a chance to press the reset button on humanity, would you build it back the same way?”

Cavell adds, “These incredibly fundamental and fascinating questions about the basis of authority, the basis of government, what society owes the individual, what the individual owes to society, what individuals owe to each other — to me, to us, that feels like the meat of The Stand. So it felt like the honest place to start was after (the plague), and then we can flash back, and see bits and pieces of how people got to where they are.”

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In the case of Larry Underwood, we do get to see how he spends some of his time in a mostly empty New York City after the superflu wipes out most of the Big Apple, and we are introduced to a character we never got to meet in the 1994 miniseries based on the book: former socialite Rita Blakemoor.

In the book, Larry meets the pill-popping, unstable Rita in the park and they quickly hook up, spending a few days screwing, eating and generally enjoying each other’s company after watching the rest of the city die. Once they decide to venture out of New York, however — driven by Larry’s dreams of Mother Abigail and Flagg — Rita’s issues come to the forefront and she dies of an overdose that Larry suspects is partially a suicide. His guilt over the relief he feels at her death is the start of his own journey from self-serving narcissist to selfless, compassionate leader.

In the 1994 miniseries, Rita was combined with the character of Nadine Cross (the complicated, treacherous femme fatale played at the time by Laura San Giacomo and in 2020 by Amber Heard), which made sense in terms of streamlining the narrative for TV but deprived fans of the book of both a distinctive character and a seminal incident in Larry’s arc. Rita is back in the new The Stand, played by Heather Graham (The Hangover).

“Frankly, the combining of Rita and Nadine never worked for me,” admits Cavell. “I don’t think it works for my understanding of Nadine, it also eliminates the Nadine/Joe relationship forged on the road before they meet Larry. I mean, there are all these parts of that relationship. And the way in which Larry and Nadine come to seem like an estranged couple sharing custody of (feral little boy) Joe — you really don’t get that if Larry gets out of New York with Nadine. I think that the stuff with Rita really changes Larry, and actually is a catalyst for him to become who he becomes in the course of the series.”

With this version of The Stand having nine hours to work with, instead of six (minus commercials) like the 1994 edition, Cavell says that restoring Larry’s time with Rita — whose death in the show is shown as a deliberate suicide — was one of his favorite aspects of adapting The Stand. “It’s one of the most beautiful, memorable parts of the book for me to this day, I think — Larry and Rita’s sojourn in this empty Manhattan,” he explains. “We were so happy to be able to get that back in. It felt like such a big win, and Heather Graham is just so brilliant as Rita, which felt like even more support for that decision.”

One thing that is different about Larry’s time in New York with Rita is that they don’t make their famous pilgrimage through a pitch-black Lincoln Tunnel packed with stalled cars and rotting corpses to get out of the city. That nightmarish journey — a scene well-remembered by fans of the book and handled somewhat less effectively in the 1994 miniseries — has been replaced here by an equally macabre jaunt through the sewers below Manhattan as Larry and Rita escape from some very dangerous men.

“I think one of the things we’ve done is try to really ground our story,” says Cavell about that change. “And really have the decisions people are making feel like they come out of character and logic, and not just for dramatic purposes. Viewing it through that lens, it is almost impossible to explain why somebody would leave New York with the power out through a tunnel. I mean, the idea of going into a tunnel that you know is packed with stuff, when you know that the lights are out, is almost insane.”

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We’ll hear more from Cavell in the weeks ahead about characters and sequences that did and didn’t make it into the show, as well as new scenes added to this adaptation and other changes or surprises in store, as The Stand unfolds over the next seven weeks.

New episodes of The Stand premiere every Thursday on CBS All Access.

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Reposted from @ohmymr.skarsgard A NEW image of Alex from The Stand The Stand: Stephen King Series Adaptation Gets New Preview Images Posted on October 9, 2020 by Ray Flook Comments With only hours to go before CBS All Access' adaptation of Stephen King's 1978 novel The Stand makes its way to this year's New York Comic Con Metaverse with series stars Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Amber Heard, Jovan Adepo, Odessa Young, and Owen Teague as well as showrunner Benjamin Cavell and executive producer Taylor Elmore on board to discuss anything and everything about the project, we're getting another new look at the upcoming 9-episode limited series. What follows are some fresh takes on our heroes and potential "big bads" as the survivors look to shape the new world into a new society- one that Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard) would prefer bows to him. Skarsgard's Randall Flagg is the living, breathing personification of all things dark and evil. Wolff's Lloyd Henreid is a petty criminal who becomes fiercely loyal to Flagg. Bailey's Teddy Weizak is a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, alongside Harold, in Boulder, CO. McNamara's Julie Lawry is a small-town girl with a wild side who is one of Lloyd's conquests in Las Vegas. Linklater's Dr. Ellis is a military colonel and infectious-disease specialist who dreams of being the hero who stops the superglue. Graham's Rita Blakemoor is a wealthy woman who is ill-prepared for the end of the world and attempts to escape superflu-infested New York City. Kinnear's Glen Bateman is a widowed professor when the superflu hits – one accustomed to a solitary life. When he encounters other survivors, Glen's curiosity is piqued by Mother Abagail's visions. Dourif's "Rat Woman" is one of Randall Flagg's evil lackeys. Complete article can be found here https://bleedingcool.com/tv/the-stand-stephen-king-series-adaptation-gets-new-preview-images/ 📸 via @bleedingcool on Twitter #alexanderskarsgård #randallflagg #thestand #thestand2020 #cbsallaccess #premieresdecember17 #thenorthman #godzillavskong #passing #onbecomingagod #biglittlelies #biglittlelies2 #longshot #theaftermath #thehummingbirdproject #tr https://www.instagram.com/p/CGIpjhRn2gn/?igshid=67bwa1a380sa

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universalmovies · 5 years

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Anche Heather Graham tra gli interpreti di L'ombra dello Scorpione

Anche Heather Graham tra gli interpreti di L’ombra dello Scorpione

Continua a crescere il cast di L’ombra dello Scorpione (The Stand), nuovo adattamento televisivo del celebre romanzo di Stephen King.

Secondo un nuovo aggiornamento proveniente da Deadline, infatti, pare che la CBS ha chiuso un accordo con l’entourage di Heather Graham per un ruolo nella serie. L’attrice, secondo la fonte, dovrebbe intepretare il ruolo di Rita Blakemoor, una donna benestante…

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superpoweredfancast · 4 years

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Vanity Fair has released the first images from the upcoming CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand.

The images showcase the cast of the new miniseries directed by Josh Boone. According to the Vanity Fair article, this version of The Stand will shuffle the timeline and begin the story with the virus already rampant and the last survivors of the human race struggling to survive in the aftermath. The series will show the characters’ journeys before the virus spread and how they ultimately all came together.

Alexander Skarsgård strikes a pose as the villainous Randall Flagg aka The Walkin Dude in the upcoming event series.

Flagg goes to recruit Llyod Henried (Nat Wolff) who has been locked in a cell while the plague ravages the prison. Flagg finds his first recruit in a vulnerable position and grateful for the help he is willing to provide…for a price.

The series is set to begin with the survivors in their bases of Vegas and Colorado. With the survivors in the middle of rebuilding some semblance of society, the work of cleaning out the dead will have to be done.

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Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young) find a quiet moment as the only two survivors of their small Maine town. Harold leaves a message for any other potential survivors as he and Frannie leave town in search of answers.

Frannie finds out she is pregnant right before the plague wipes out most of the population. She will have to make some tough decisions as the danger around her grows and the uncertainty about whether her unborn child will be immune mounts.

Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo) and Rita Blakemoor (Heather Graham) must make their way out of a plague infested New York as they face both the dead and the damned.

Mother Abigail (Whoopi Goldberg) is the vessel God uses to bring together the people needed to make the final stand against Flagg.

Vanity Fair has First Look at Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Limited Series Vanity Fair has released the first images from the upcoming CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.

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L’ombra dello Scorpione di Stephen King torna in vita.

King non l’ha chiamato Il Virus, la malattia o la fine del mondo come la conosciamo o qualsiasi altra cosa nichilista. Voleva che il suo libro del 1978 su una pandemia globale che portasse quasi una frazione della vita umana a sparire, non fosse prevedibile nel titolo, ed infatti in inglese si chiama “The Stand”. Quando non ci sono regole, secondo il suo pensiero, i sopravvissuti devono fare una scelta: indugi verso oscuri istinti egoistici o fai ciò che è giusto per il bene degli altri? “Volevo scrivere di coraggio”, ha detto King. “Ad un certo punto, le persone devono prendere una posizione”.

Il romanzo rimane uno dei più grandi successi dell’autore e un nuovo adattamento in serie per CBS All Access arriverà entro la fine dell’anno, nell’ombra minacciosa di una vera pandemia globale (la data di lancio esatta deve ancora essere determinata.)

Gli showrunner Benjamin Cavell e Taylor Elmore, che per primi hanno lavorato insieme su Justified, hanno subito notato che King ha stratificato temi rassicuranti insieme a temi terrificanti.

“Si tratta delle domande fondamentali su ciò che la società deve all’individuo e su ciò che dobbiamo reciprocamente”, ha affermato Cavell. “Negli ultimi tempi, per molti anni, abbiamo dato per scontato la struttura della democrazia. Ora, gran parte di questo viene strappato dai propri perni. È interessante vedere una storia di persone che la stanno ricostruendo da zero.”

È difficile sapere come sarà il nostro mondo quando la serie inizierà con i suoi nove episodi, ma la crisi del coronavirus ha solo intensificato l’interesse per film come Contagion e Outbreak. Lo spettacolo ha dovuto terminare la produzione all’inizio di marzo quando il COVID-19 ha iniziato a diffondersi in Nord America, ma, per ora, CBS All Access prevede di procedere con l’uscita: “È stato molto surreale, ovviamente, iniziare a rendersi conto che c’era una pandemia dilagante come all’inizio del nostro spettacolo“, ha detto Cavell.

È importante notare che il virus nel racconto non è un virus organico che salta dall’uomo a un’altra specie, ma “un dispositivo creato dall’uomo, letteralmente un arma“, ha detto Elmore, osservando che un aspetto della storia di King era il modo in cui gli umani troppo spesso progettano la propria autodistruzione. E non ci sarà alcun riferimento al reale coronavirus. “Questa è una versione alternativa di come le cose sarebbero potute andare“.

La malattia nel racconto è anche catastroficamente peggiore di qualsiasi cosa abbiamo visto nella vita reale, arrivando ad uccidere il 99% della popolazione. King ha cercato di reprimere un po’ di paura twittando questo fatto nei primi giorni della pandemia, ma anche ora riconosce le inquietanti somiglianze che si sono manifestate nella vita reale.

“Quando senti notizie che 100.000 o 240.000 persone moriranno, devi prenderne atto e sarà un male. È brutto in questo momento”, ha detto King, che ha scritto un nuovo finale della storia che funge da episodio finale della mini-serie. “Ha fermato completamente l’economia. In molti modi, intendo, vedi le foto di Times Square o di Londra e dici: ‘È davvero come The Stand’. Ma le macchine non sono ammucchiate e nessuno si sta ancora sparando.”

Non molto tempo dopo quell’intervista, gli uomini iniziarono a presentarsi ai raduni anti-quarantena con fucili d’assalto. Quindi una guardia di sicurezza in un negozio Family Dollar è stata colpita alla testa, ha detto la polizia, dopo aver chiesto a un cliente di indossare una maschera di sicurezza.

Qui sotto potete vedere le immagini:

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Nel cast della serie vediamo Whoopi Goldberg come Madre Abagail, che riceve delle visioni da Dio e guida i sopravvissuti; James Marsden come Stu Redman, un texano nonché il primo uomo a scoprire di essere immune al virus; Amber Heard è Nadine Cross, un’insegnante di scuola privata che crede di esser destinata a stare al fianco di Flagg; Odessa Young come Frannie Goldsmith, una sopravvissuta al virus; Alexander Skarsgard come Randall Flagg, un uomo sinistro che non invecchia e con delle capacità sovrannaturali.

Heather Graham è Rita Blakemoore, una donna benestante impreparata di fronte alla fine del mondo; Jovan Adepo come Larry Underwood, un giovane musicista tossicodipendente; Nat Wolff come Lloyd Henreid, un criminale che diventa un alleato leale di Randal Flagg; Owen Teague come Harold Lauder, un uomo che va alla ricerca di altri sopravvissuti con Frannie Goldsmith, geloso ma di buone intenzioni; Brad William Henke come Tom Cullen, che viaggia con Nick Andros (Henry Zaga) ed è un disabile; Daniel Sunjata come Cobb, un soldato; Eion Bailey come Teddy Weizak, Katherine McNamara come Julie Lawry, una ragazza cresciuta in una piccola città e dotata di un lato selvaggio.

Hamish Linklater come il dottor Ellis, un militare e specialista in malattie infettive; Greg Kinnear come Glen Bateman, un professore, da poco vedovo, abituato a stare solo.

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L’ombra dello Scorpione: ecco le prime immagini della serie di CBS All Access L'ombra dello Scorpione di Stephen King torna in vita. King non l'ha chiamato Il Virus, la malattia o la fine del mondo come la conosciamo o qualsiasi altra cosa nichilista.

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Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand

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This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension.

The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.

A motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC — which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier — gave The Stand the green light.

King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. Unlike It and a second ABC/King miniseries, 1993’s The Tommyknockers — both of which had been four hours — The Stand was developed as a four-night, eight-hour event, containing a little over six hours of content after commercials. Budgeted at $26 million, featuring more than 125 speaking parts, and shot over six months in Utah, Las Vegas and other locations, The Stand premiered on ABC from May 8 – 11, 1994.

The Stand begins with the spread of a military-created bioweapon that becomes known as the superflu or Captain Trips after it escapes from a high-security lab. The flu’s 99% mortality rate ensures that human civilization is all but wiped out, although the remaining 1% is completely immune for reasons unexplained.

As the survivors in the U.S. struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with tens of millions of rotting corpses, they are plagued by mysterious dreams that draw them to one of two places. Some head for Boulder, Colorado, where it seems as if decent, “good” people are gathering around an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail who claims to speak for God, while others of a less kind bent congregate in Las Vegas under the rule of Randall Flagg, a “dark man” with supernatural powers who is a powerful demon in human form.

As the two groups assemble, it becomes clear that a confrontation is shaping up, with four of the Boulder Free Zone’s leaders — and four of our main characters — eventually heading to Las Vegas where they will make their “stand” against Flagg.

Even with six hours to fill, King and Garris had to do quite a bit of condensing to fit The Stand into its format. Nevertheless, just about all the major plot points and characters from the book make it into the miniseries, even if some don’t quite get the development they deserve. Yet the show moves along at a decent if unhurried pace, giving one time to invest in the story and the characters enough to care about what happens and who survives (many don’t).

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The cast is a grab-bag of faces from both the big and small screen. Gary Sinise — months away from his breakout role in Forrest Gump — is absolutely perfect as Stu Redman, the Texas blue collar everyman who is among the first to make contact with the superflu and walk away unscathed. Also quite effective are Rob Lowe as the saintly deaf mute Nick Andros, who becomes one of the leaders of the Free Zone, Ray Walston as the sarcastic sociology professor Glen Bateman, and Bill Fagerbakke as the sweet, intellectually disabled Tom Cullen.

Less impressive but improving over the course of the six hours is Adam Storke as the self-centered rock musician Larry Underwood. Larry is a crucial character in The Stand: it’s his ability to evolve from a selfish narcissist to a leader willing to sacrifice himself that is key to the triumph of good over evil. Storke has his moments and Larry does blossom in the latter stages of the story, but he doesn’t pull off the character’s transformation as effectively as one might have hoped.

More compelling are Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross (a character who, in the show, is a hybrid of the book’s Nadine and Larry’s doomed traveling companion Rita Blakemoor) and Corin Nemec as Harold Lauder. The former has promised herself to Flagg, while the latter is an incel on steroids; together they plot a terrorist attack to kill the Free Zone’s leaders before skipping town for Vegas. They too are doomed, but their collision course with each other and their fate is decidedly repulsive.

Of the major “good” characters, it’s sad to say that Molly Ringwald just doesn’t pull her weight as Frannie Goldsmith, the pregnant young woman who is the object of Harold’s desire but whom ultimately falls in love with Stu. Ringwald comes across as naïve and whiny, and her acting here is a pale shadow of her glory years in movies like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. More effective, excellent in fact, is Miguel Ferrer as Lloyd Henreid, the small-time crook and killer who becomes the take-charge right hand man to Flagg in Las Vegas, and an over-the-top Matt Frewer as the Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac who Flagg entrusts with finding weapons left out in the Nevada desert by the government.

Which brings us to Flagg and his opposite, Mother Abigail. Flagg, a recurring embodiment of evil and treachery in many King novels and stories, was reportedly the hardest role to cast. Although King and Garris initially wanted a Hollywood star, they went with the lesser known Jamey Sheridan, who brings a kind of manic glee to the role even if his heavy metal wig is questionable. Ruby Dee was practically born to play Mother Abigail (she even told Fangoria magazine that “her whole life had been research” for the part), and while the character as originally written suffers from King’s tendency to create “magical Negros” for his stories, Dee still brings poignancy and dignity to the role.

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If we’ve spent a lot of time on the casting, that’s because The Stand really does live or die — and in this case it’s the former — on the strength of the characters and their relationships. Even if some of the acting is more on a typical TV level (or even below), Garris and King and their cast succeed in making you care about what happens to these people as they first survive the plague and then summon the fortitude to not just restart civilization but face an ultimate evil before they can barely catch a breath.

But Garris brings plenty of other effective touches to the show, starting with the panoramic vistas that he shoots to emphasize just how empty the world has become. The show does have an epic sweep to a lot of it, even with the restrictions of TV back in 1994, and W.G. Snuffy Walden’s (who is best known for scoring The West Wing) spare, evocative score goes a long way toward setting the melancholic yet ominous tone that Garris evokes through most of The Stand’s six hours.

There are also some truly memorable setpieces, starting with the opening tracking shot of corpses strewn all over the underground military lab to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.” Stu’s harrowing escape from the lab in which he is kept is pretty terrifying stuff for 1990s television, and while we wish Larry’s walk through a Lincoln Tunnel stuffed with dead cars and bodies lasted a bit longer, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Although Mother Abigail’s home is clearly a set on a soundstage, the moment in which she looks back at it as she leaves for Boulder, knowing she’ll never see it again, is quietly moving, as is the moment when Larry, Glen and Ralph Brentner (Peter Van Norden) have to leave an injured Stu behind on their long walk to Vegas.

The climax, the “stand” of the title, is problematic, but that’s possibly because it’s always been a hotly debated moment in the novel as well. Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph are instructed by a dying Mother Abigail to walk to Vegas and confront Flagg. As we mentioned, only Larry, Glen and Ralph make it; Glen is shot to death by Lloyd Henreid in his cell, while Larry and Ralph are to be publicly executed by dismemberment, in front of the entire population of Vegas, on Flagg’s orders.

Just as the execution is getting underway, a radiation-sick Trashcan Man returns from the desert with a nuclear weapon in tow. With the men of the Free Zone having shown their worth to God by facing Flagg with courage and offering to give their lives to defeat him, the Almighty takes over from there. He turns a little ball of electricity that Flagg used to fry a traitor in the crowd into a manifestation of “the hand of God,” detonating the bomb and wiping out Flagg, his minions, and our selfless heroes.

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While many have criticized this scene in both the book and miniseries as a “deus ex machina” climax, it actually makes sense: the Free Zone heroes can only do much themselves against an immortal, powerful being like Flagg. They can weaken him, but they can’t quite destroy him. Once they’ve proven themselves, however, by standing up to Flagg and his unknowable evil with faith and courage, God finishes the job. The problem is that in the book, Larry and Ralph interpret the thing in the sky as the “hand of God.” In the miniseries, Garris made it look like an actual hand.

That adds a layer of cheesiness to what is otherwise a strong climax, as does having Mother Abigail’s disembodied, cooing head float above the crib of Frannie’s baby in the hospital during the closing moments, looking like a cutout picture of Ruby Dee’s face slapped on the glass window of the nursery. It’s effective and emotional to have the show close on a shot of the baby, sleeping peacefully and virus-free and metaphorically carrying the future on her tiny back, but the Abigail phantom almost ruins it.

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For all its faults — its dated view of the American populace (even with 99% percent of the world wiped out, there are far too few people of color among the survivors), its creaky fashions, its occasionally cut-rate visual effects and its uneven acting — The Stand still holds up pretty decently. Sinise and the stronger actors do much of the heavy lifting, the story and stakes are clearly laid out, and the viewer becomes involved in the characters and their struggle. Now more than 25 years later, The Stand is being adapted again by Josh Boone (The New Mutants) and Benjamin Cavell (King’s son Owen is also a producer and writer on the project). The 10-part miniseries will debut Thursday (December 17) on CBS All Access, and in addition to a different structure for the story, the series will feature a brand new ending written by Stephen King himself. In the meantime, the original 1994 version still has heart, plenty of it, and for King and Mick Garris, it was evidently a labor of love. It may be far from perfect, but one could say it stands on its own two feet.

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