I need to know what you think of The Stand being remade

[andrewducker]

Poll #24690

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A TV series about life after a pandemic apocalypse

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Perfect timing! We get a glimpse of our future!
6 (20.0%)

No no no! I can't deal with realism right now.
16 (53.3%)

SEWIWEIC
8 (26.7%)

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Comments

[melita66]

My answer probably should be the second one (no no no!) but I'm not a big horror fan anyway. Now that I have kids, and even before COVID-19, I have even less taste for near-future apocalypse tales.

[rhythmaning]

https://youtu.be/L4qsNSSbftM?t=160

[andrewducker]

I don't get it!

[mlknchz]

MOST films based on Kings works SUUUUCCCKKKK.

[andrewducker]

They really do, especially the horror ones.

Stand By Me, and Shawshank are stand-out exceptions.

[shiraphant]

I never watch things (seriously, I've almost got an aversion to watching things), but the book is an old friend to me, and I'm interested to see how this adaptation differs from the 1994 version, so I will probably watch this. It's like fanfic, and I do like to see different takes on characters I'm attached to.

[azurelunatic]

I wouldn't be watching it in any case, so unless my friends go into a fannish frenzy I probably won't have any emotions about it.

[zz]

never heard of it, except maybe the name in passing. and i don't do horror/zombies/hope-devoid-post-apocalypse.

[andrewducker]

Oh, The Stand isn't hope-devoid. Stephen King novels actually have happy endings a fair bit of the time!

It's good Vs evil amongst the survivors.

[birguslatro]

Either Firefox or DW is a bit broke, as the video in my friends list is different to the (correct one) here in the comments! I was confused, and decided you were being a bit ironic. The wrong video was of a NZ leaders' debate... :)

[andrewducker]

YouTube embed weirdness by the sound of things!

[nickbarlow]

Heard of this a while ago, and think it was originally meant to come out earlier this year. I'm actually interested to see how much they deal with the plague itself and if they've edited that part of the story down. The trailer implies it's more focused on the second half of the book, but trailers always lie.

[nickbarlow]

Misery too (and I've just realised that all these are about 30 years old now!)

[jack]

Huh. Funnily enough I forgot the plague, it felt like it was all about the after, so it didn't feel especially connected to the pandemic.

I thought you were going to mean "do we need more remakes?" and I was going to say, I thought there were too many of them but they were often done well.

[andrewducker]

I have no issue with well-done remakes.

I was trying to work out why I objected to The Watch, and I think that it's because I was really hoping for something that captured the feeling of the books, and this felt almost like an attack on them, when we haven't had it done "straight" yet.

[agoodwinsmith]

I think I'm tired of the continuous remining of the 80's and 90's. Surely there is something recent that someone younger than me loves and would be delighted to see it introduced to a wider world?

[andrewducker]

78. But I take your point!