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The Stand: What James Marsden Hopes Viewers Take Away From the Stephen King Adaptation Stephen King's The Stand may start with a pandemic, but while the epic novel is ultimately about so much more than the vicious disease -- a super flu called "Captain Trips" -- that wipes out nearly all of the world's population, CBS All Access' limited series adaptation of the novel comes at an interesting time. With 2020 having seen the world deal with its own deadly pandemic, there are sure to be no shortage of parallels and lessons that viewers will take away from the series, for series star James Marsd...

'The Stand' cast talks their 'surreal' experience making a series about a fictional pandemic during a real pandemic Ethan Alter Back in early January, when the rest of the country was focused on President Trump’s impeachment drama playing out in Washington D.C., the cast and crew of the CBS All Access event series The Stand were having daily conversations about a strange new disease that was generating headlines in Asia. “We started to hear little stories,” Greg Kinnear tells Yahoo Entertainment now of the then-distant coronavirus pandemic. “If we were to have done a ...

James Marsden plays survivor Stu Redman, a good-hearted Texan. (Robert Falconer/CBS Published December 16. 2020 12:32PM  Hank Stuever, The Washington Post Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit The deadly pandemic that opens CBS All Access's stylish if stilted new take on Stephen King's 1978 novel "The Stand" (premiering Thursday) couldn't be timelier or more terrifying: Loosed from a military weapons lab, the "Captain Trips" virus kills 99 percent of the population (dogs too!), quicker than any Karen can gripe about how masks are infringing on her constitutional ri...

Henry Zaga on How the New Mutants Director Josh Boone Led Him To the Stand The Stand will see Henry Zaga star as Nick Andros, one of the post-apocalyptic story's main and in many ways beloved characters, but fans may recognize him from this year's The New Mutants. Zaga played Roberto "Bobby" da Costa, aka Sunspot in the film, which was directed by Josh Boone, who developed and directed The Stand. And according to Zaga, it was working with Boone on In an interview with ComicBook.com, Zaga said that working with Boone on The New Mutants was an amazing experience and he spoke highly of the d...

The Stand Executive Producers on the Responsibility of Getting the Adaptation Right The Stand is an epic book. Not only is the story of humanity's last stand in a battle of good versus evil in a world brought to the brink by a pandemic itself one that has been compared to the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, but the novel is long one and is beloved by readers all around the world. Adapting such a well-known and beloved book is something that executive producers Benjamin Cavell and Taylor Elmore didn't have reservations about but did feel a responsibility to get right.