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The Stand (miniseries)

The Stand
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Television miniseries poster
Genre Apocalyptic, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Based on The Stand by
Stephen King
Screenplay by Stephen King
Directed by Mick Garris
Starring Gary Sinise
Molly Ringwald
Jamey Sheridan
Rob Lowe
Laura San Giacomo
Miguel Ferrer
Ruby Dee
Bill Fagerbakke
Corin Nemec
Adam Storke
Ray Walston
Matt Frewer
Ossie Davis
Shawnee Smith
Theme music composer W.G. Snuffy Walden
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 4
Production
Producer(s) Stephen King
Mitchell Galin
Cinematography Edward J. Pei
Editor(s) Patrick McMahon
Running time 366 minutes
Production company(s) Laurel Entertainment
Greengrass Productions
Budget $28,000,000 USD
(equivalent to $45,243,826 in 2016)
Release
Original network ABC
Original release May 8 (1994-05-08) – May 12, 1994 (1994-05-12)
Stephen King's The Stand (Original Television Soundtrack)
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Soundtrack album (Digital download)/Audio CD by W. G. Snuffy Walden
Released May 24, 1994
Length 46:40
Label Varèse Sarabande

The Stand is a 1994 American television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay and has a minor role in the series. It was directed by Mick Garris and stars Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke, Ray Walston, and Matt Frewer. It originally aired on ABC starting on May 8, 1994.

On June 17, at a top-secret government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza (called Project Blue) is accidentally released. A guard escapes the lab and begins traveling across country to his family home in East Texas, unintentionally spreading the virus along the way. A few days later he crashes his car into a gas station in Arnette, East Texas, where Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and some friends have gathered. As the man lays dying, he warns Redman that he had been pursued by a "Dark Man". The next day, the U.S. military arrives to quarantine the town.

The other townspeople, taken with Stu to a CDC facility in Vermont, soon sicken and die, but Stu remains healthy and unaffected. Outside, the supervirus, nicknamed Cap'n Trips, rages unchecked. In two months it has killed 99% of the world population.


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