The Stand
The end of the world is just the beginning.
The Stand (1994)
Seasons: 1,
episodes: 4
Episode runtime: 90 min
Average rating:
7/10
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Production
Status
Completed
Creators
Scenario
Stephen King
Author
Producer
Peter R. McIntosh
Actors
Gary Sinise
Stu Redman
Rob Lowe
Nick Andros
Molly Ringwald
Frannie Goldsmith
Jamey Sheridan
Randall Flagg
Corin Nemec
Harold Lauder
Ruby Dee
Mother Abagail Freemantle
Adam Storke
Larry Underwood
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Monster Shouter
Short description
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1994-05-08 | 7.5 |
What's left behind the scenes
- The miniseries is based on Stephen King's novel "The Stand" (1978).
- According to the script, the film takes place in 95 different locations across 19 states.
- The film was shot across 6 states over the course of 100 filming days.
- The film features more than 125 speaking roles.
- The film has 6 hours of screen time and more than 4 and a half hours of music.
- The scene in the hallway of the famous Plaza Hotel and Casino was actually filmed in the hallway of the equally famous Stardust Casino.
- The Las Vegas hotel-casino where Randall Flagg and his henchmen settle in is a recreation of Biff's Pleasure Paradise from the alternative 1985 in the movie 'Back to the Future Part II' (1989).
- A radio host in Arnette mentions a song by Kathy Kayman Goldmark, the founder of the writers' rock band 'Rock Bottom Remainders,' of which Stephen King is a member.
- Randall Flagg mentions that he appointed a certain Russ Dorr to be responsible for the intelligence mission. Russ Dorr is a friend of Stephen King from Maine; King's novel 'Pet Sematary' begins with an acknowledgment to Russ Dorr.
- The cane that Stuart Redman has at the end of the film is exactly the same as Andre Linoge's cane in the miniseries 'Storm of the Century' (1999), which was based on an original screenplay by Stephen King.
- Randall Flagg's Las Vegas penthouse was also a set built entirely in a studio. The marble walls and floors were actually made of particle board and painted to look like marble.
- In the novel, Ray Flowers is a man. In the film, this character became a woman, played by Kathy Bates (uncredited).
- Most of the film was shot on the soundstages of the old Osmond film studio in Orem, Utah.
- Mother Abagail's farm and the cornfield were created entirely on the studio soundstages.
- To create the set for Mother Abagail's farm, a real large tree and tons of mud, grass, and sod were brought to the filming location. The sky was painted on backdrops that surrounded the set on all sides.
- Initially, real corn stalks were ordered for the cornfield and flown to the Osmond studio from Florida. However, by the time the stalks reached the set, they were already dead and unusable for filming. To replace the "heroically fallen" stalks, an entire field of artificial corn was created, costing approximately $80,000.
- The role of Randall Flagg was originally offered to actor Jeff Goldblum, but he turned it down.
- Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe were also considered as candidates for the role of Randall Flagg.
- The role of Judge Richard Ferris was intended for actor Moses Gunn, but he was forced to decline due to health problems (Moses Gunn died of asthma on December 16, 1993).
- Stephen King himself played one of the characters in the film.
- The novel 'The Stand' (1978) grew out of Stephen King's short story 'Night Tide,' published in the collection 'Night Shift' (1978). In 2002, director Peter Sullivan filmed a short film of the same name based on this story.
- Initially, the adaptation of Stephen King's novel 'The Stand' was planned as a feature-length film to be directed by the legendary horror maestro George A. Romero. Stephen King wrote several versions of the synopsis, attempting to fit the events of his sprawling work into a standard movie runtime. When the writer failed to do so, it was decided to split the adaptation into two separate films. The screenplay was to be written by Rospo Palenberg—who, incidentally, co-wrote the screenplay for Nikita Mikhalkov's film 'The Siberian Barber' (1998). However, before the project went into production, Stephen King received an offer to adapt the novel as a television miniseries. This provided the opportunity to preserve more of the book's events, prompting the writer to accept the offer—and the feature film project was scrapped.
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