The Stand

Image   Director Josh Boone faced immense pressure in visualizing King's beloved thousand-page saga of humanity's battle between good and evil in the aftermath of the apocalypse. Over the course of nine hours in an equal number of episodes, Boone judiciously balanced intimate character portraits with epic stakes, giving room for star-making gems like Whoopi Goldberg and Alexander Skarsgård to shine. Despite the…

> The so called super flu does not exist. The above and the quote in the title of this write up are two lines taken from a mini series I started (re)watching, yesterday night. I watched some more of it this night. Now is it a coincidence that my hand picked this title from a chest filled with over 200 DVD's? I doubt it. I didn't remember what it was about. The Stand ( 1994 ), is a mini series, based on a book by Ste…

For this article I felt it was very fitting to use the world renowned "William Shakespeare", style qoute as it is a question I found myself asking after watching the recent update to the Stand mini series. The Stand an Apocalyptic Mini series written by arguably one of the greatest Horror writers of our time "Stephen King", and first released in the early 90s. The story focuses around Stew Redmond an immune survivor…

Source Several weeks ago a new series was released called The Stand that’s based on a Stephen King’s story. I was thinking about watching that series but since I wasn’t convinced by what I read about it I decided to instead check the original series from 1994. Sometimes the original productions are way better than the remakes even though they might seem dated. The Stand is a story about the end of the world. Everyth…

New mini-series that adapts another successful Stephen King novel and immerses us in a battle between good and evil, in a post-apocalyptic world. Source - Edited in photoshop The stand was already adapted to the mini-series format in the nineties. That version was directed by Mick Garris and Stephen King was part of the team and wrote the script for the television version of his own novel. In Spanish-speaking countr…