Romero ( The Dark Half) at the helm, but sadly it was not meant to be. The project came closest to fruition in the 1980s with George A.
Evil.įor years, Stephen King’s epic fourth novel The Stand (1978) was deemed unfilmable due to its length and potential cost. These are just a few of the many characters we follow on this journey as the two sides gather and prepare for an epic showdown of Good vs. Harold Lauder, fueled by unrequited love and jealousy, is drawn to the dark side and the deeply disturbed pyromaniac Trashcan Man has a penchant for explosives. Larry Underwood is a famous musician who pairs with the mysterious Nadine Cross in New York, while the kindhearted Nick Andrews, a deaf mute from down South, teams up with the mentally challenged Tom Cullen on their quest to Nebraska.įlagg has his followers too, starting with Lloyd Henried, whom he frees from a locked cell in an empty prison in Arizona. Heeding the call of Mother Abigail, we follow the adventures of genuinely good people like Stu Redman from East Texas, and Fran Goldsmith, who recently buried her father in Maine.
A handful of survivors spread across the United States begin having strange shared dreams some featuring the peaceful 106-year-old Mother Abigail urging them to come see her in Nebraska, while others dream of the dreaded Dark Man, aka Randall Flagg, who brings darkness and death to his kingdom in Las Vegas. When a new string of super-flu colloquially known as Captain Trips is accidentally released from a California lab, the virus quickly spreads into a pandemic wiping out ninety-nine percent of the global population.
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