![]() ![]() ![]() Simmons, Ezra Miller, and more, but it was a different time. Now, that wasn’t quite as “all-star” as the new version, which boasts James Marsden, Odessa Young, Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Amber Heard, J.K. ![]() That version, directed by Mick “the nicest guy in horror” Garris, spanned four episodes and a whopping 366 minutes, which was a lot back in the day when we weren’t all accustomed to marathoning bloated ten-episode Netflix series on the reg, and the cast included Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ray Walston, Laura San Giacomo, Matt Frewer, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee … gosh, I could hit my word count just by listing the ensemble. Why, I remember when we first got a TV miniseries version of The Stand all the way back in 1994, when I was not even a year out of high school. Indeed, it’s been wont to do so for decades now. The new version comes to us under the aegis of Josh Boone, whose last effort, The New Mutants (2020), was much delayed and met with a fairly muted response when it finally got released, and features an all-star cast as this kind of big TV event is wont to do. We’re now getting the new TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s apocalyptic 1978 doorstopper, The Stand. The end of the world is just the beginning. ![]()
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