NY Comic-Con: the Dark Man cometh in Initial trailer for Your Stand miniseries

It is Stephen King’s planet; we are just living in it. Throughout New York Comic Con,” CBS All Access fell the very first official trailer for its ten-episode restricted miniseries of The Stand, a version of King’s sprawling 1978 post-apocalyptic fantasy book about the wake of a deadly outbreak which wipes out the majority of the planet’s population.

(A few spoilers for the Stephen King book below.)

The Stand is broadly deemed to be one of King’s best work, with a huge cast of characters along with a number of storylines. In addition, it is his best, together using all the 1990 Complete and Uncut Edition exceeding even It’s in page count. King has stated he wished to compose an epic dark fantasy comparable to The Lord of the Rings, just with a modern American setting. “Rather than a hobbit, my hero was a Texan called Stu Redman, also rather than a Dark Lordmy protagonist was a callous drifter and unnatural madman called Randall Flagg,” King wrote in his 1981 nonfiction novel, Danse Macabre. “The soil of Mordor (‘where the shadows lie’ based on Tolkien) was performed by vegas.”