Which is pretty unusual: “Before it hits a movie theater near you, Stephen King‘s epic postapocalyptic novel “The Stand” will take a revolutionary detour to the small screen, as Warner Bros. and CBS Films are in talks with Showtime to mount an eight-part miniseries that will culminate in a big-budget feature film…” As I recall, the original miniseries started out exceptionally strong, unfortunately coasted downward a bit once the actual apocalypse was over, but did not actually become absurd until the climax. Hopefully they’ll do better than that this go-round.
Guess we’ll see.