Moderated by Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican, the panel featured some of the series’ stars, including Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard and Owen Teague, as well as executive producers Benjamin Cavell and Taylor Elmore. RELATED: Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ TV Series Starring Whoopi Goldberg Gets First Teaser On Friday, the streaming service unveiled the first official trailer and key art for “The Stand” during a virtual panel at New York Comic Con. Due to its overwhelming ‘90s-ness, the miniseries hasn’t necessarily aged that well, but it’s not an embarrassment, either.Stephen King’s epic battle between good and evil is being adapted for the screen, with the Master of Horror’s 1978 novel The Stand coming to CBS All Access as a limited series. The cast was certainly interesting, with Gary Sinise as de facto protagonist Stu Redman and appearances from Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, and Bill Fagerbakke, among many others. As with It, which was first adapted into a 1990 TV miniseries, The Stand aired as a decently regarded, six-hour miniseries in 1994 on ABC. It’s hard not to make comparisons with the success of last year’s It, as there are a lot of similarities here. What I’d like to do is Anthony Minghella-depth adaptations of King’s books, if that ambition makes sense.” “I’m a huge John Carpenter fan, but on Christine, there’s an aching sadness and deep character development in the book that’s just not in that movie. “The movies based on King’s books that don’t work so well are the ones that don’t take the heart of the characters that beat in the books,” Boone said in 2016. Now, The Stand is back in the place that probably makes the most sense for adapting a novel of more than 1,200 pages, on the small screen. failed to progress on an adaption that might have come from the likes of David Yates, Ben Affleck or Boone himself.

The project was originally conceived as a long film series, but rights for the property reverted back to CBS films after Warner Bros. Directed by Josh Boone ( The Fault in Our Stars), who is also presiding over the complicated reshoots of the horror-centric New Mutants, the adaptation of The Stand would join Star Trek: Discovery as one of the marquee programs of CBS’ premium streaming service. Just how much of a crossover is there between Stephen King and Star Trek fandoms, anyway? That’s what we can’t help but wonder after reading news that Stephen King’s classic post-apocalypse epic, The Stand, is apparently headed for an upcoming TV adaptation via CBS All Access.

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