Frannie and Stu stop at an abandoned house in Nebraska. Let’s break down some of what we’re seeing. What comes between those things can be as much or as little in some way as wants. We also were intending to get Stu home to Fran. We always had intended to end it the way the expanded edition ends, which is how we ended it, right? With Flagg on the beach presenting himself to this new group of potential converts or acolytes. You also merge it with the new ending he wrote for The Stand’s special edition in 1991, with the demonic Randall Flagg appearing before a tribe that has had no contact with the so-called civilized world. Well, let’s tell the continuation that he wants to tell.” I gave him a note that said ‘Thank you for writing this for us.’” As soon as he said he wanted to do it, it was just, “Yeah. When people ask, “Well, did you give Stephen King notes?” I say, “Yes, I did.
That mushroom-cloud climax was straight out of King’s 1979 novel, but this new finale is an original concept that the author has been mulling for a while. While resting during their cross-country journey, Frannie is mortally wounded and finds herself tempted not by an apple, but by a healing promise from the devil ( Alexander Skarsgård), who hopes to collect at least one victory after being vanquished by his own hubris in the penultimate episode. In the new coda to the show, Frannie Goldsmith ( Odessa Young), the first woman to give birth after almost all of the population of earth died in a plague, ventures out into the world with Stu Redmond ( James Marsden), Adam to her Eve. But I wanted to do it in a way that was not preachy.” At some point, people do have to make a stand. “And I wanted to write about Christian mythology. “I wanted to write about bravery,” he told Vanity Fair last spring. The title of the final episode of The Stand was was “The Circle Closes,” which may help explain why Stephen King brought his end-of-the-world saga to a conclusion that was more akin to the Book of Genesis than Revelations.īefore assuming the Biblical references are overwrought, King himself said that religious scripture influenced the story.
0 kommentar(er)
