![]() ![]() ![]() King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC - which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier - gave The Stand the green light. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.Ī motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension. ![]()
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