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The Stand (1994 miniseries)

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The Stand is a 1994 American television horror miniseries based on the 1978 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, who previously directed the King adaptation Sleepwalkers(1992). In order to satisfy expectations from King fans and King himself, The Stand is a mostly faithful adaptation to the original book,^{[citation needed]} with only minor changes to material that would otherwise have not met broadcast standards and practices, and in order to keep ABC content.

The Stand includes a cast of more than 125 speaking roles and features Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke, Ray Walston, Ed Harris, and Matt Frewer. The miniseries was shot in several locations and on 225 sets. However, each episode was given a $6 million budget. To reduce cost, the miniseries was shot on 16mm film. The Stand originally aired on ABC from May 8 to May 12, 1994.^[1] Reviews were positive and the miniseries was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two for its makeup and sound mixing.

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On June 13, at a top-secret government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza, called Project Blue, is accidentally released. A U.S. Army soldier on guard duty named Charlie Campion escapes the lab and begins traveling across the country to his family home in East Texas, unintentionally spreading the virus along the way. On June 17, Campion crashes his car into a gas station in the town of Arnette, Texas where Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and some friends have gathered. As the man lies 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 townspeople are taken to a CDC facility in Vermont. All but Stu succumb to the superflu (also called Captain Trips), which kills 99.4% of the world’s population in two weeks. The scattered survivors include would-be rock star Larry Underwood (Adam Storke); deaf mute Nick Andros (Rob Lowe); Frannie Goldsmith (Molly Ringwald) and her unborn child, her teenaged neighbor Harold Lauder (Corin Nemec); imprisoned criminal Lloyd Henreid (Miguel Ferrer); and “Trashcan Man” (Matt Frewer), a mentally ill arsonist and scavenger. The survivors soon begin having visions, either from kindly Mother Abagail (Ruby Dee) or from the demonic Randall Flagg (Jamey Sheridan). The two sets of survivors are instructed in dreams to either travel to Nebraska to meet Abagail, or to Las Vegas to join Flagg.

As their journeys begin, Lloyd is freed from prison by Flagg in exchange for becoming his second in command. Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac, destroys fuel tanks across the Midwest and is directed to Las Vegas. Larry escapes New York City with a mysterious woman named Nadine Cross (Laura San Giacomo). Despite their mutual attraction, Nadine is unable to consummate a relationship with Larry because of her visions of Flagg, who commands her to join him; she leaves Larry to travel on her own. After escaping the CDC facility, Stu gathers a group of survivors, including Frannie, Harold, and former college professor Glen Bateman (Ray Walston). They are later joined by various other immune survivors.

As the group travels toward Nebraska, Harold is consumed with jealousy over Stu’s leadership of the group and his growing relationship with Frannie, on whom Harold has an unrequited crush. Meanwhile, Nick barely escapes an attempt on his life in Shoyo, Arkansas, and makes his way across the Mid-South, eventually meeting Tom Cullen (Bill Fagerbakke), a mentally challenged man, in a small town in Oklahoma. The two men travel by bicycle together into Kansas, and encounter Julie Lawry (Shawnee Smith), a sexually promiscuous and vicious girl who vows to kill them when they refuse to let her join them. Nick and Tom then meet Ralph Brentner in his pick-up truck not long after fleeing from Julie. They load their bicycles into the bed of Ralph’s truck, and head west together. Eventually Nick’s group reaches Abagail’s farm in Hemingford Home, Nebraska. She warns that a great conflict is imminent and they must all travel on to Boulder, Colorado. There, the survivors form a new community called the Boulder Free Zone, where they begin restoring civilization.

Flagg sets up an autocratic regime in Las Vegas, with the intent of defeating the Boulder survivors using salvaged nuclear weapons. Frannie feels increasing anxiety, because she is unsure whether her baby will be immune to the superflu. Harold’s resentment towards Stu and Frannie intensifies, causing him to be seduced by Nadine and join forces with Flagg. Abagail, convinced that she has fallen into the sin of pride, leaves Boulder to walk in the wilderness in an act of atonement. Three Boulder survivors are chosen by the Free Zone Committee to infiltrate Las Vegas as spies: Tom, Dayna Jurgens (Kellie Overbey), and Judge Farris (Ossie Davis). Glen hypnotizes Tom to follow a specific set of instructions, including that he leave Las Vegas at the next full moon.

Harold and Nadine plant a bomb in Frannie and Stu’s home, planning to set it off during a meeting of the Free Zone Committee. A weakened Abagail returns to town and gives a psychic warning to the council members at the meeting. The warning allows most of the council to escape the explosion, but Nick, and a few others, are killed. Before she passes away, Abagail tells Stu, Larry, Glen, Ralph, and Frannie that the men must travel to Las Vegas to confront Flagg. When Nadine and Harold flee after detonating the bomb, Flagg causes Harold to be seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. Nadine leaves him with broken legs in a ravine, and he kills himself with a gun the next day. Flagg calls Nadine to him. She tries to escape and tells him no when he wants to consummate their relationship, but Flagg tells her it is too late to say no, and forces himself on her. Nadine is unresponsive following the attack by Flagg, and her hair has turned white. Upon returning to Las Vegas, an increasingly unstable Flagg finds the first Free Zone spy Dayna, who he plans to torture for information. But Dayna kills herself before Flagg can extract anything useful. Flagg’s men then intercept Judge Farris, who is accidentally killed before he can be tortured.

Tom leaves Las Vegas when the moon is full, but Julie Lawry recognizes him; she tries to alert Flagg, but Tom escapes into the desert and hides from Flagg and his men. Shortly afterwards, a crazed Nadine taunts Flagg and commits suicide with the unholy baby he conceived in her. With winter fast approaching, Stu, Larry, Glen, and Ralph leave Boulder to set out on their quest. Stu breaks his leg when he falls in a dry riverbed, and must be left behind with Glen’s dog, Kojak. The remaining three are captured by Flagg’s forces, and Glen is separated from Larry and Ralph. Flagg orders Lloyd to kill Glen after he taunts Flagg. As Larry and Ralph endure a show trial on Fremont Street, Trashcan Man arrives with a stolen nuclear weapon. Flagg is unable to stop a spectral hand from detonating the bomb as the voice of Abagail declares that God’s promise has been kept, and she welcomes Larry and Ralph home into heaven. Las Vegas is destroyed and Flagg is apparently killed, along with all of his followers.

Stu is rescued by Tom, who takes him to a nearby cabin to heal his leg as winter sets in. However, Stu has contracted the flu. In a dream, Nick comes to Tom and tells him (Nick can talk in Tom’s dreams) which medicine to give Stu. Eventually, Stu recovers from the infection, and the two of them return to Boulder in the midst of a blinding snow storm. He rushes to the hospital to find that Frannie has given birth to a daughter. The baby, whom she names in honor of Mother Abagail, is healthy and immune to the superflu. Lucy then reveals that she is pregnant with Larry’s child, as Mother Abagail’s spirit watches over the newborn. Assured that the immune survivors can safely reproduce, the inhabitants of Boulder set to work rebuilding the world.

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