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In the late ‘70s, Stephen King set out to write an epic American story to rival The Lord of the Rings. Taking inspiration from news stories involving chemical-biological warfare, King wrote of a ruthlessly lethal flu-like virus and the lucky (or unlucky) few who survive it. The resulting book, The Stand, is King’s longest and one of his most beloved. The Stand been adapted a few times, first as a miniseries in 1994, then as a comic book in 2008. Currently, CBS All Access is airing a T...

The Stand EPs Explain the Series Changes from Stephen Kings Book The Stand adaptation debuted on Thursday taking viewers once again into Stephen Kings unsettling post-apocalyptic classic but while the story of a world ravaged by a horrific pandemic may be familiar this latest adaptation offered up some key changes from page to screen. Most readily apparent was the story structure, but there are some bigger changes on the way as the series continues, including a more diverse cast and some gender...

Performer of the Week: Kaley Cuoco TVLine 12/19/2020 THE PERFORMANCE | As intense as her performance was during the Episode 6 meltdown, the dramedic thriller’s eighth and final episode gave Cuoco something new and differently engaging to do: play Cassie Bowden as someone just a bit more sober, and thus a bit more able to sincerely engage with those around her. And we were rapt. Take the scene in which Cassie caught up to fellow fly girl Megan at her Rome hotel room, to finally be honest ...

CinemaBlend Stephen King has created some wild characters over the course of his career, but few compare to Donald Elbert a.k.a. The Trashcan Man in The Stand. A schizophrenic pyromaniac who finds himself roaming an near-empty world thanks to his immunity from the Captain Trips virus, his entire arc in the book is basically about just letting his freak flag fly and giving in to every psychotic impulse that his id produces. Thanks to Trashy’s extreme eccentricities, there is extreme curios...

The Stand: Odessa Young Calls the Series Timing a "Strange Turn of Events" When The Stand debuts on CBS All Access Thursday, December 17th, the adaptation of Stephen Kings iconic novel about good versus evil that just so happens to see humanity decimated by a pandemic will arrive at a time when the real world is dealing with an actual pandemic. Its unexpected timing for the long in the works series, that was filming just as COVID-19 began to spread earlier this year and according to series sta...

The Stand: Inside That Massive Change From Stephen Kings Novel James Minchin/CBS CBS All Access The Stand Executive producer Benjamin Cavell speaks with The Hollywood Reporter about a critical structural difference between the CBS All Access thriller and the original book on which its based. Without the context of Stephen Kings novel on which the limited series is based or even the previous 1994 miniseries, viewers of CBS All Access The Stand may find themselves as lost as the survivors of the...

The Stand: How "The End" Differs from Stephen Kings Book ✖ The Stand debuted on CBS All Access Thursday with the premiere episode of the nine-part limited series, "The End", introducing viewers to a handful of the main characters for this dystopian story while also revealing how the world as those characters know it ends. However, while the series is a largely faithful adaptation of Stephen Kings epic novel of the same name, there are some key differences from the page to the screen -- and we...

Elaine Chung “The pandemic parallel makes me a little uncomfortable,” says author Owen King, “Because the suffering of real people is one thing. And artwork is really another thing.” The millions who’ve been hurt by the COVID-19 epidemic are real; the victims of Captain Trips, the viral super flu in his father’s now-classic novel The Stand, are fiction. That story’s dramatically deadly plague, which wipes out more than 99 percent of the American population and leaves bodies fill...

The CBS All Access limited series The Stand is based on Stephen Kings 1978 novel by the same name, but in 2020, this one hits a little close to home. King, who also penned The Shining, which was inspired by Estes Parks Stanley Hotel, has another horror story partially set in Colorado. But this time, the post-apocalyptical plot is centered around a global plague. CBS All Access The novel opens with a soldier escaping a top-secret military facility as a plague has been unleashed that kills e...

CinemaBlend The Stand has arrived, with its first episode landing on CBS All Access this week. It’s an exciting time for fans who have been watching the project move ever so slowly through development – but it’s also a key time to provide a reminder that the show isn’t going to be a carbon copy of its source material. Factors including the book being multiple decades old and having been previously adapted are going to influence certain new choices made by the filmmakers. And...