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The ‘Ehhhh?’ new THE STAND trailer.

I’m not sure they got it right. As Stephen King himself noted, THE STAND is a book about medieval Christianity, and while King may not have meant that description in an entirely positive way, the novel draws a lot of power from the idea that the Divine is not and will not be commanded by Man. It’s not enough to believe in God; what’s needed here is to fear Him and His implacable, inexorable goodness, and I don’t know if there’s a mainstream director at the moment who can manage that.

But I might be wrong, here.

The new THE STAND trailer.

This new THE STAND trailer doesn’t look too bad? I can identify who is supposed to be who from the scenes, at least. So yeah, it looks pretty good. Not good enough to get CBS All Access, obviously, but I figure it’ll eventually it’ll end up on a real streaming service and I can watch it then.

Moe Lane

PS: It’d have to be something on the level of the Snyder Cut AND all that DC superhero stuff. Why do you ask?

Book of the Week: The Stand.

Although, I have to admit: Stephen King’s The Stand has a lot to answer for.  More accurately, the expanded version does. The problem was not so much in the fact that King’s book about medieval Christianity (I’ve seen him cop to that, in those words) set in a post-apocalyptic America was reissued with all the previously-cut bits put back in.  It’s that the book sold like even more hotcakes afterward, convincing the world that expanded versions of previous best-sellers were just what American literature needed.  Alas, this was not true.

Still, the book itself is fantastic. In both versions.  And, I suppose, in both meanings of the word.

And so, adieu to Lords and Ladies.

Interesting: plans to do Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ as a TV miniseries AND a movie.

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.