Feb 11, 2021 since its publication in 1978, author stephen king has come up with three different endings for the stand. The stand movie tiein edition by stephen king, paperback. At the end of animal farm, pilkington and other human farmers come to eat dinner with the pigs at the farmhouse. Ed harris, uncredited as general starkey, is a particular stand out, stern military bearing giving. Stephen king first dreamed up the superflu known as captain trips.
Ive read multiple accounts of people being disappointed with the ending to the stand. It falls into the categories of postapocalyptic science fiction and horror fantasy. The stand is the fourth and longest novel by bestselling author stephen king, who has written over 60 books to date, including such wellknown titles as carrie 1974, the shining 1977, pet sematary 1983, misery 1987, and the green mile 1996. Aug 03, 2012 the stand looked at those ordinary people the readers of his book and said. The three of them arrive back in boulder soon after the birth of frans baby. Everything we know about stephen kings new the stand. Stephen king has written another new ending to the stand but do. The stand by stephen king meet your next favorite book. Description product description stephen kings apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. New series ending to the stand could answer the novels greatest. The book builds up some expectations and makes promises with the reader, and the end is just a deus ex, as if none of it really mattered. The author himself penned the finale of the series, ending the apocalypse with an enigmatic garden of eden story. In the book, this pondering ends with stu asking frannie if she thinks people ever learn anything, a response to the battle against randall. And does she ever get some, in a fiery tumult of telekinetic destruction that.
Give me three and theyll invent the charming thing we call society. Stephen kings new ending for the stand is the best version polygon. From nuclear annihilation nevil shutes on the beach to ecodisaster the drowned world by j. Aug 02, 2019 stephen king has written a new ending for the stand and this is not a drill by sam haysom 20190802 09. The stand doesnt waste any time throwing big changes from the book at the audience, as the very first frame proves to be a deviation. The stand by stephen king 1978, 1990 how the world ends. King wrote the new coda that wont be found in the book for the forthcoming tv adaptation starring james. I never understood how the stand became huge because the ending just made me never want to read it again. The ending of the stand 2020 minseries had significant changes from the books endings and raised multiple questions. The few survivors, united in groups, establish a new social system and engage in confrontation with each other. The ending also makes the argument that political power is always the same, whoever has it and whatever ideology is used to justify it. At the ending, i usually feel disappointed, especially with. The stand is bloated, racist, and somehow still a masterpiece.
Every single stephen king book, ranked from worst to best. The finale of cbs all accesss adaptation of stephen kings the stand arrived on thursday with the circle closes, a coda to the iconic story written by king himself. The stand miniseries finale delivers a new ending written by. Sep 15, 2020 epic horror books like the stand these sprawling epics act as remedies, treating darkness with darkness. Give me seven and in seven years theyll reinvent warfare. May 10, 2015 thats the moral of the stand, and yeah, its a bummer. Powerful people are cruel and selfish whether theyre pigs or humans. The stand episode 1 breakdown, ending explained spoiler.
The pigs have started to dress and behave exactly like humans. Since this book was written over 40 years ago without smartphones or the internet, there. How the series finale compares to stephen kings book. At the end of the book, when all the bad guys are nothing more than dust in a mushroom cloud, stu reflects on the rebuilding of society. Rather than the threat being ghosts or vampires, it was a sickness, nicknamed, in the. Stephen king decries comparisons between coronavirus and the. Kings book, many times revised now, remains the prime reference work. In the book, this pondering ends with stu asking frannie if she thinks people ever learn anything, a response to the battle against randall flagg that only ended when an atomic bomb the worlds great manmade devastator exploded in the middle of las vegas. My wife loaned my copy to a neighbor and i never saw it again so i had to replace it. Horror master stephen king has rewritten the end of the stand, his story of a postapocalyptic world ravaged by a deadly superflu, for the cbs miniseries. That, for me, is his biggest weakness, in all of his books that i have read, im always gripped by the fantastic way he sets up a tale, but ultimately somewhat deflated by how it ends. It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by rolling stone, time, the modern library.
Stephen king has written a new ending for the stand and. At the very end, i loved the scene of flagg standing before the befuddled islanders, speaking different languages, and laughing his ass off that he would get to play. Stephen king decries comparisons between coronavirus and. Twenty years after her twin sister disappeared, tess. Weve mentioned it before, but stephen kings postapocalyptic, horrorfantasy epic, the stand, is. The production features stephen kings son owen king as a producer and writer, and a new ending written by stephen king. Aug 25, 2020 despite production on the stand wrapping earlier this year, it remains to be seen when a release date for the miniseries will be announced. Aug 24, 2012 i have read many stephen king books, and the stand, like so many others of his, contained a wonderful array of characters and a great storyline, but a lousy ending.
Sep 24, 2018 together, the pair plant a bomb in nicks house, killing him, sue stern, and several other prominent members of the community during a committee meeting fran also suffers serious, but not fatal, injuries. The stand wrapped its run on thursday with a brandnew coda written. Dec 17, 2020 yes, stand is a long book 1,152 pages in its 1990 extended edition, but the writers have ample time in a miniseries format to make this transition less jarring. Mother abigail and later frannie talk about the everturning whe. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. The novel wraps up with some clever congressional hearing transcripts. Stephen kings new ending for the stand is the best version. Stephen king is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Somewhat fittingly, the biblesized tome with over a dozen central characters, each one. Reviewers praised the believability of the story, the relevance of the issues raised and the.
Do you think do you think people ever learn anything. Infinite jest by david foster wallace in an interview with the boston phoenix, wallace said, plot. But, in 1990, the novel was rereleased with a substantial update hundreds of pages king was forced to cut out of the original pressing due to. Stephen king is writing a new ending for the cbs all access tv series james marsden, amber heard, odessa young, and henry zaga also join the cast of the new upcoming adaptation. Feb 11, 2021 due to the fact that the stand is a miniseries, it is highly unlikely season 2 will ever happen. Although the baby falls ill with the superflu, he is able to fight it off. Then there was nadine, a character more complex than i could ever i. The stand is a postapocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by american author stephen king. The stephen kingwritten new ending for the stand is now live on cbs. Fans of the source material likely expected that the. Stephen kings postapocalyptic horror classic the stand had been adapted for television before with the 1994 abc miniseries. I like all of them but i love a select few and the stand is at the top of the list. But cbs all access upcoming limited series the stand will bring a. Stephen king has revamped the ending of the standfor the third timefor the new miniseries based on his 1978 novel.
Ive read it twice since the original shorter version was first published and i know ill read it again. The stand 2020 miniseries ending explained screen rant. Ballard to the zombie apocalypse world war z by max brooks, writers have been fascinated with doomsday scenarios. Mar 09, 2020 stephen king is denouncing comparisons between his 1978 novel the stand and the coronavirus social media users have drawn comparisons between the two due to the novels premise. If you are already a king fan and you havent read the stand, youll love this book. The final two episodes of cbs all accesss adaptation of the stand. After a deadly plague kills most of the worlds population, the remaining survivors split into two groups one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being to face each other in a final battle between good and evil. After the pandemic kills almost the entire world population, the few survivors are drawn to one of two figures. Released in 1978, the weighty book the original version is 823 pages long, while the 1990 uncut edition is over. As the other animals watch through the window, they find they are unable to tell pigs and humans apart. This is part two of my threepart series on stephen kings the stand. The stand miniseries finale delivers a new ending written. Aug 07, 2017 the rest of the opening hour and a half isnt quite at that level of inspiration, but its awfully damn fine, depicting the military and civilian responses to the end of humanity through some wellcontrasted scenes and a few terrific performances.
Here, we break down the ending of firefly lane, and what could be in store for season two. Does stephen king have issues with ending his books. The stand is and will remain my favorite of his books. This book is in good condition and shows normal wear to cover and corners. Until then, in news that is sure to excite fans of horror maestro the stand author stephen king, director josh boone has revealed that the literature legend has written an episode of the stand which is set after the book s ending. Since its publication in 1978, author stephen king has come up with three different endings for the stand. What stephen king adds with his new ending syfy wire. Spoilers ahead for those who havent read the novel. The scene in the book is very memorable, but we had some questions about it. In the stand, author stephen king tells what is ultimately a story of good versus evil set against the postapocalyptic backdrop of a world decimated by a horrifying super flu known as captain. Aug 02, 2019 stephen king loves a good rewrite, update, or addition to stories hes already finished. Both harold and nadine later end up committing suicide, the latter after her traumatic, lessthanconsensual sexual encounter with flagg.
It has been included in lists of the best books of all time by rolling stone, time, the modern library, amazon and the bbc. The stand showrunner breaks down that radically different finale. Spoiler warning for two of the stands three endings. Stephen king has written another new ending to the stand. The social science is a bit simplistic but the quality of the storytelling and character development are both excellent. The book tells the story of the end of the human race as we know it, brought about by a deadly flu strain, developed by the us military.
Aug 02, 2019 the original ending to the stand is fairly ambiguous, at least from a thematic perspective. Stephen kings new ending for the stand is the best. Nov 11, 2016 the end of the world as we know it teotwawki has always been a reliable premise for science fiction and horror novels. Question i had about the ending of stephen kings the stand. Feb 17, 2021 kristin hannahs books yes, theres a sequel provide some potential answers. The book s final image expresses the animals realization that the pigs have become as cruel and oppressive as human farmers. King also contributed a brandnew ending to the story.
May 08, 1994 with gary sinise, molly ringwald, jamey sheridan, laura san giacomo. The stand is a postapocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by american author stephen king and first published in 1978 by doubleday. The plot centers on a pandemic resulting from a mishap at a military biological research station which allows the escape of a lethal strain of influenza. Everett collection in the novel, the accidental release of a world ending plague decimates the majority of americas population, leading to a postapocalyptic tale of survival amid an otherworldly clash of good vs. Then there was nadine, a character more complex than i could ever imagine. The stand series will have a different ending written by. Adapted from the massive stephen king novel of the same name, the cbs. May 20, 2020 stephen king has revamped the ending of the standfor the third timefor the new miniseries based on his 1978 novel. These 15 books with twist endings that will catch you. Characters are more fully detailed and a few new ones are introduced. Stephen kings the stand tells the story of a deadly virus that kills off the. The hand explodes a nuclear warhead he planned to drop on boulder, destroying flagg and his followers in one swift blow. The stand, for instance, has several different endings, depending which edition you read, and now its getting another one for the tv series adaptation.
His recent work includes if it bleeds, the institute, elevation, the outsider, sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, and the bill hodges trilogy. New series ending to the stand could answer the novels. Its been cited as a deus ex machina ending, but i felt that it was incredibly appropriatein a book whereby randall flagg, arguably a demon, is wreaking havoc on gods people, why shouldnt god have his say in the end. How stephen kings new ending in the miniseries adds. But before all that, when king was still writing the novel inbetween bouts of writers block, he penned an. The stand is an american postapocalypse streaming television miniseries, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by stephen king. In the end, stu and fran decide to return to maine, and the original edition of the novel ends with the two of them questioning whether the human race can learn from its mistakes. Dec 17, 2020 the stand doesnt waste any time throwing big changes from the book at the audience, as the very first frame proves to be a deviation.
However, the stand did end with the perfect setup for a followup, as randall flagg is still alive and will undoubtedly wreak havoc across the world once more. Am i missing something here, or just reading the wrong books. The original ending to the stand is fairly ambiguous, at least from a thematic perspective. Oct 03, 1978 this is the biggest single book ive ever read in my life so farits 470k words and its even bigger than oathbringer by brandon sandersonand although it doesnt go into my personal favorite list, i enjoyed the majority of the book.
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