King and Romero then went away to collaborate on the more palatably sized Creepshow (1982). In those days, a story that was stretched over two film parts was regarded as commercially unthinkable and Romero could not obtain the financing. During the early 1980s, George Romero wanted to make a two-part film. The Stand is a work that has defied filmmakers through in its sheer size. King later included cameos from the demonic figure of Randall Flagg in other works like The Eyes of the Dragon (1986) and The Dark Tower series. The book won the World Fantasy Award and has consistently come in on various all-time literary classic reader’s polls. The Stand is still King’s longest work to date (even longer in the unabridged version that King released in 1990, which has an extra four hundred pages). He tells how the story fell into place after he saw a news report of a 1968 incident where biowarfare agents from army experiments were accidentally spilled and killed several thousand sheep. As King tekks it, he had sought to write an equivalent of The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) but using the American landscape as a setting. The Stand (1978) was the fourth ever novel written by Stephen King. The survivors follow the visions that take them to either place as the forces gather for an ultimate showdown between good and evil.
Others have dreams drawing them to join a demonic envoy known as Randall Flagg who is gathering all the crazies, rejects and criminals as he builds a base in the ruins of Las Vegas. She is led by visions from God to set up a new home for them in Boulder. Some have dreams drawing them to come to Mother Abigail Freemont, a 106-year old woman living on a farm in Nebraska. Only a handful of scattered survivors remain in the aftermath. The virus, nicknamed Captain Trips, rapidly spreads across the country, killing 99.9 percent of the population.
The others quickly succumb and the only one unaffected is Stu Redman. The military arrive and take everybody present at the gas station into custody. He eventually crashes at a gas station in East Texas only to die infected.
A soldier on gate duty at a California military base makes an escape as all of the personnel inside are infected by a viral outbreak.
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