![]() The book was Inspired by a chemical spill, not the AIDS epidemicĪccording to Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, King’s 1978 version of The Stand was inspired by a real life chemical spill in Utah that killed a number of sheep and the doomsday proclamations of a Midwestern preacher on a religious radio station. Everything, it seems, is coming up The Stand these days.ġ. Beyond this notable anniversary, CBS All Access is also currently at work on a new 10-episode version due to drop some time next year. The reason for this surprise appearance: The Stand turns 25 this year. However, Stephen King is set to soon make a rare podcast appearance, joining Garris on Post Mortem to look back on a time when something like The Stand still seemed entirely novel. Here, for example, i s a timeline of the production’s lengthy development hell period. Nostalgia goggles and all, I love The Stand so much I’ve already written about it pretty extensively. ![]() Circling back to the glory days of 1994’s The Stand – everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic tale of the good, God-fearing people of the American Midwest locking horns with a literally horned devil and his army of sinners in Las Vegas, Nevada – wasn’t in my plans. I just wrote about Desperation, the 2006 TV movie which marked the sad end of Stephen King’s relationship with ABC and also served as his penultimate project with Mick Garris. ![]()
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