Stephen King's The Stand (CBS All Access) - D: Josh Boone
02-28-13, 10:26 PM
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I know that there's a major twist around the halfway point of the novel. I know this not because my slow-reading ass has actually gotten there yet, no, no, no. I know this because in his book On Writing, the blasted author himself gives it away!
03-01-13, 07:43 AM
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You should have known something like that would happen while you're reading an author's memoirs. Just sayin'.
03-01-13, 11:55 AM
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Spoiler:
03-01-13, 11:57 AM
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There are twists all through "The Stand." Allllllllllllll through it. When you read it the first time, you're like "wow," "wow," "wow," "wow," after every couple of chapters. (At least that's how it was for me.)
03-01-13, 11:45 PM
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Complaining about spoilers in a nearly 40 year old book.
03-02-13, 08:02 PM
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I don't care how old the book is, Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None have endured for decades based on their plot twists, just because it's old doesn't mean everyone will have gotten around to reading it.
03-03-13, 07:55 AM
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I spent 16 years in Catholic school, I knew that one 
. Although I still don't get the rabbit.
. Although I still don't get the rabbit.
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03-04-13, 07:51 AM
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Fair warning: stay away from Danse Macabre if you haven't yet watched, read, or heard every horror and science-fiction story of the past 60 years. lol.
03-04-13, 12:38 PM
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03-04-13, 12:40 PM
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03-04-13, 12:43 PM
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03-04-13, 01:05 PM
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Here's an article on adapting The Stand as per Affleck from November '12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2143718.html
They need to just make a 13 episode, Walking Dead style one off of it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2143718.html
They need to just make a 13 episode, Walking Dead style one off of it.
04-16-13, 02:17 AM
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After the worldwide plague (Captain Trips), the survivors are left to eat food from cans. Since food from cans contain a lot of sodium and preservatives, wouldn't the survivors be in danger of high clorestrol and high blood pressure, and die of heart attacks?
Stephen King never addressed this. Ruined the whole story for me!
Stephen King never addressed this. Ruined the whole story for me!
04-16-13, 09:39 AM
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One thing I hope is that Affleck doesn't get into it without his creative batteries fully charged, i.e. as the third or fourth film of a run of work. I think he's genuinely gifted as a director but this novel is an immense piece of modern mythology and it's going to take him running on all cylinders creatively to shoot it properly. I'd rather it be delayed a year or two than it be rushed and not the film it could be.
04-16-13, 10:15 AM
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I read the novel (short version) many years ago, a year or two before the miniseries premiered (1994). I don't remember anything that happened in either the book or the series, other than groups of survivors wandering around the American west after an apocalypse, divided up into good guys operating on a cooperative basis and a bad guy leading his mindless followers and some confrontation looming between the two groups. I remember finding the book engaging while I was reading it, but completely forgettable afterwards. I remember finding the miniseries completely miscast. That's all. I don't see how "spoilers" would actually spoil anything, since it's such an insipid, cliched plot. The value of the book was basically in experiencing what the characters go through, how they relate to each other, the mechanics of how they survive--those things don't spoil--not necessarily what "happens."
04-16-13, 10:23 AM
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After the worldwide plague (Captain Trips), the survivors are left to eat food from cans. Since food from cans contain a lot of sodium and preservatives, wouldn't the survivors be in danger of high clorestrol and high blood pressure, and die of heart attacks?
Stephen King never addressed this. Ruined the whole story for me!
Stephen King never addressed this. Ruined the whole story for me!
04-16-13, 10:40 AM
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One thing I hope is that Affleck doesn't get into it without his creative batteries fully charged, i.e. as the third or fourth film of a run of work. I think he's genuinely gifted as a director but this novel is an immense piece of modern mythology and it's going to take him running on all cylinders creatively to shoot it properly. I'd rather it be delayed a year or two than it be rushed and not the film it could be.
08-23-13, 02:08 PM
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BREAKING: Warner Bros has set Scott Cooper to re-write and direct The Stand, the seminal post-apocalyptic Stephen King novel. That means that while the studio has Ben Affleck as its new Caped Crusader for Batman Vs. Superman, Affleck has withdrawn from The Stand. He had been set in late 2011 to write the script and direct. Affleck is busy directing and starring in his scripted adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Live By Night for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros is teamed on the project with CBS Films, which is co-producing and co-presenting and possibly financing the project together.
Published in 1978, the mammoth novel covered a biological apocalyptic disaster that decimated the population. The survivors then had to try and piece together a new form of humanity and it became a good vs evil struggle, with elements of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. King was at his best, both in creating depictions of the demise of civilization and in the arcs of characters good and bad who became important in a new order. The novel is so sprawling that I always wondered how it could be compressed into a feature, and it was turned into a solid miniseries. Now, Cooper will try to mount what for Warner Bros continues to be a big priority project.
Roy Lee and Mosaic are producing for Warners and Jon Berg is the studio exec. Cooper is currently developing Creek with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his next film, Out Of The Furnace, is released December 6. That one was produced by Appian Way and Scott Free. Cooper, the actor-turned-filmmaker who made his breakthrough with the Jeff Bridges-starrer Crazy Heart, is represented by CAA and attorney Darren Trattner.
Warner Bros is teamed on the project with CBS Films, which is co-producing and co-presenting and possibly financing the project together.
Published in 1978, the mammoth novel covered a biological apocalyptic disaster that decimated the population. The survivors then had to try and piece together a new form of humanity and it became a good vs evil struggle, with elements of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. King was at his best, both in creating depictions of the demise of civilization and in the arcs of characters good and bad who became important in a new order. The novel is so sprawling that I always wondered how it could be compressed into a feature, and it was turned into a solid miniseries. Now, Cooper will try to mount what for Warner Bros continues to be a big priority project.
Roy Lee and Mosaic are producing for Warners and Jon Berg is the studio exec. Cooper is currently developing Creek with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his next film, Out Of The Furnace, is released December 6. That one was produced by Appian Way and Scott Free. Cooper, the actor-turned-filmmaker who made his breakthrough with the Jeff Bridges-starrer Crazy Heart, is represented by CAA and attorney Darren Trattner.
08-23-13, 02:36 PM
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I'm actually relieved. The Stand should be a series instead of a movie. Ben Affleck is better off far away from that potential turkey.