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Now playing: A very covid Christmas Steven Zeitchik, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from Adam Mason's film "Songbird." The movie is one of several pieces of entertainment that tackle the coronavirus this month, raising interest and questions.STXfilms This time of year tends to bring a reliable set of entertainment staples: Hallmark romances, cozy celebrity musical specials, theaters asplash with stories of cute kids and their dogs. But 2020 is topsy turvy. And it wants to make an important addition to the canon: pandemic jitters. Amid the cheer that Hollywood ...

CinemaBlend In a certain light, Stephen King’s The Stand exists as a living document. The post-apocalyptic novel was originally published in 1978, but the author has taken multiple opportunities to change the text. In 1990 an unabridged version of the book was published, adding about 400 pages to the story as it was originally published, and a few years after that he personally took on the task of adapting the material as a six-hour miniseries. More than a quarter century has passed since that last update, but now King has made further revisions in the form of a new coda that will air a...

'The Stand': Inside That Massive Change From Stephen King's 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 it's based. Without the context of Stephen King's 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 Captain Trips pandemic. In King's The Stand, a deadly plague wipes out virtually all of h...

The Stand: How "The End" Differs from Stephen King's 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 King's epic novel of the same name, there are some key differences from the page to the screen -- and we're breaking down some of the major ones we spotted in this premiere episode. Warning: spoilers ah...

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 filling the streets, is very different from the quieter horror actually unfolding across the nation, whe...