At the very least, the new cast feels remarkably different from the 1994 cast. One look at the cast says a lot about this adaptation, which appears to be taking liberties with certain characters and moving them in new directions. But now it's finally here: a 10-episode limited series for CBS All Access, helmed by The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone. Over the years, several feature film adaptations of The Stand have been attempted and eventually abandoned, including one by the Harry Potter team of David Yates and Steve Kloves, and one by Ben Affleck. It was ambitious for its time, but it was very much a TV movie. ABC tried it once, with a four-part 1994 miniseries event directed by Mick Garris that starring the likes of Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, and Ruby Dee. For a novelist whose works have been adapted into movies so many times (often more than once), The Stand has always been the most daunting. The book followed over a dozen major characters and countless minor ones, and that was all before the 1,100+ page unabridged edition was published in 1990. His 1978 novel was a massive 800+ page tome about - and stop me if any of this seems familiar - a deadly plague that swiftly covers the globe, wiping out all but a small portion of humanity, with the survivors subsequently drawn to one of two messianic figures, one of goodness and one of evil. If you read the book though, don't waste your time.The Stand is, in the opinion of many, horror legend Stephen King's masterwork. If you watch the movie and like the story, read the book.
It is a great story and done well for a tv mini-series. I struggled watching it and have a much different look at the movie (5/10) I guess that if you have not read the book and have 6 1/2 hours so waste, watch the movie. I couldn't believe how much they left out of the book that I had grown to love.
I also told myself that I would not watch the movie again until I finished the book. It was tiresome at first, but at the end I didn't want the story to end. It took a painstaking 3 months to read the book. I like the movie so much (8/10) that I broke down and bought the unabridged edition of it. The whole time I was watching it my friend was raving about how much better the book was. I was very impressed with it even though it was a television movie. Someone originally made me watch this mini-series that he had on tape.
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