Mick Garris was brave enough to give it a go back in the mid-’90s, helming a four-hour ABC miniseries of The Stand penned by King himself. The subject matter is pitch-black, with folks quite literally being crucified on the streets of Las Vegas and every major highway in America choked with bloated corpses and abandoned cars. The story unfolds across a bazillion locations. The cast of characters includes dozens upon dozens of players. The revised, “Complete and Uncut” version published in 1990, generally agreed upon as the definitive version, weighs in at a colossal 1,152 pages, making it the longest standalone novel in Stephen King’s entire bibliography. When you get right down to it, one would have to be at least a little out of their mind to even attempt adapting The Stand.
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