Stephen King's THE STAND 2020 (Don't Fear The Reaper)

[@LedosKell]

The music playing with the camera focused on Flagg's boots just hits.

[@vickyroy9572]

It really does hit, you can't outrun the reaper

[@terrysparrow2180]

There are parts about this opening that I really like while others I prefer about the 1994 miniseries. Seeing the scientist in her death throes was chilling and I liked that Campion wasn't a total NPC like in the original. Here he did his job at first and quickly initiated a lockdown, it was Flagg causing the door to stay open that tempted him and caused him to run. I wish they had shown more of the lab and how the science team was wiped out though, I loved that part of the original.

[@jagc1969]

I strongly agree with you.

[@georgespalding7640]

I thought this was a pretty decent series but it left out some of the characters that were really interesting in the book. I wish it could have been maybe two episodes longer so they could have included more characters and detail.

[@icevariable9600]

I saw this on my phone. Did I see Flagg’s boot holding that door open? I had to rewind it twice to see, but it was too dark.

[@starwarsroo2448]

The camera just gliding though the installation to this tune is hard to top

[@simonedwards9450]

@@icevariable9600yes that was Flagg’s boot

[@jimlascola]

1994 version blows this remake out of the water...

[@janethaagenstad8380]

I totally agree!

[@icevariable9600]

Needs more cowbell.

[@williamdon3442]

For sure

[@dangc8315]

It’s as if those who did the 2020 version didn’t even read the book. Including Stephen’s son

[@rustywilson3127]

@@icevariable9600😂😂😂

[@Ferchokyzer]

Notice how the door is dented . Meaning that Flagg was using extreme force to keep it open.

[@John_Smith_Dumfugg]

Can't believe they pussied out and didn't show all the corpses, dead where they stood. That was my favorite part of the original.

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

Same! That shit was creepy!

[@B.McAllister]

Haha what an awesome homage. I wish they used this song.

[@isauce05]

It's in the latest episode!

[@Opal1OO]

That song opened the 94 version. Much better adaptation.

[@pinki8888]

@@Opal1OO one of my all time fav movies

[@Opal1OO]

@@pinki8888 same. I wish when they remade it they would have done like a 20 episode series. With a better cast. The 1994 version had to cut a lot from the book but it was so much better.

[@wtfed9262]

Them didn't 😔😭

[@Elite20001]

Wow they really broke the bank with this opening... I mean one dead scientist.

[@oscarkoop2548]

Not showing how instantly deadly the super bug was really took away from this part.

[@phuturephunk]

That sort of fits with the reality of transmission though. Too deadly and it will kill itself out before it can spread. This is actually perfect because it shows an infection that starts slow, incubates with a long contagion period and then figuratively explodes, killing the host. Gives enough time for humans (who are gonna human) to spread it around.

[@anneominous7172]

@@phuturephunk I do believe you've misunderstood the comment - and I'd venture a guess not read the book.

[@johnrafferty4364]

I'll admit it is scarier in the book as your left wondering how bad it is for while until you find out plus him frantically telling his girl to get the kid and checking the wind in the book is also terrifying

[@CaroleHuxel]

In the book and the first movie, the guys wee sitting around the gas station when they see the car racing towards them. Stu reaches over and flips the switch on the gas pumps. That changes everything. If the car hit the pumps and they blew up, they might have killed the virus. In the book they don’t stop for anything , just the three of them in the car.

[@zachhoward9099]

@@CaroleHuxelI thought in the expanded version it said Campion infected a fast food worker when they stopped to get some food, I might be wrong on that though

[@kevinborgan8544]

A plot hole: how did Campion become infected? I understand Captain Tripps, like any disease, works at different speeds in different people. But Campion had to have been exposed at some point during his escape. Still, not a huge issue. The Stand is one of my all-time favorite reads.

[@crystalratclffe3258]

It's Viral load, the scientist was closer to the initial leak and got a higher viral load, versus Chanpion who was away and got a lower viral load.

[@qdllc]

And like the original, odds are the leak happened sooner, so he was already infected, but when people started dying, then the sensors registered the leak…and his being “outside” the lab meant he wasn’t as exposed, so he was asymptomatic at the time.

[@Azazel2024]

Flagg manipulates events. Seriously how many times do I need to explain? As far ascreal world, If He was in contact prior then it could have. But its not possible to transmit much through air period at least any real distance even ANTHRAX isn't that effective as an air dispersed toxin . Covid was SOOO MAGICAL IT DID 🤣...SARCASM. if the soldier was isolated then no he couldn't have been realistically

[@Deimos2k5]

You can see that both the door out of the lab (orange) and the door between him and the scientist (white) aren't properly sealed. He sees both, figures out he's not safe in the control room and makes his choice

[@theplaguedoctor5773]

Preferred the opening scene to the miniseries. The original showed the deadliness of the virus. People just dropped in the middle of what they were doing.

[@qdllc]

I somewhat disagree. The placement of bodies in the original struck me as odd, but I envision that such a facility would have a failsafe like a nerve agent to kill everyone inside as a last ditch effort to contain the leak. So, some were portrayed as clearly infected while others seemed okay and just dropped where they stood. My guess is once someone realized there was an outbreak, they sounded the alarm and the toxin was released as the exits locked down so nobody could get out.

[@SpookyZombiee]

"I know were in a rush, but let me put Dont Fear The Reapear on the radio first"

[@Mauricio-oq1tm]

Oh, It's a must!!! Hold on, it'll just take a sec!!

[@Scoonertuna]

This SHOULD have been the first scene of the first episode of the freakin 2020 series!!!

[@janethaagenstad8380]

Great book and great miniseries.

[@wbl5649]

just started the book, 2/1, gawd help me get through this door stop of a book, I'm a slow reader, check back in May maybe I will have finished

[@janethaagenstad8380]

@@wbl5649 😁 Stephen King’s books move right along. I read the first one and then he wrote it again with more story so I know what you’re saying.

[@Azazel2024]

Book 10 / 10 crappy lefty remake 1/ 10

[@mitch4527]

Blue Oyster Cult has said that this song isn’t about death or suicide, but the immortality of love.

[@ericblair6984]

It is interesting that the 1994 version used an instrumental version of 'Don't Fear the Reaper'. I kind of like it with the lyrics back. Having Randle Flagg being the catalyst for the spread really changes the movie as well.

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

@@ericblair6984 It wasn't instrumental. They used the regular version.

[@Scoonertuna]

And that's what ends up defeating evil in the end

[@guytech7310]

"this song isn’t about death or suicide, but the immortality of love." LOL! No its about smoking Pot, Reaper = Reefer.

[@donmehl556]

@@guytech7310 No it isn't.

[@Government_Username]

I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell

[@lexxstrum]

When I watched the original miniseries, my head canon was that Flagg wasn't the devil, but some minor demon, like a Plague demon. Normally harmless, except for occasional outbreaks. But a global pandemic supercharged him, and he was almost like a god.

[@Azazel2024]

Read a book . You're wrong

[@lexxstrum]

@@Azazel2024, sorry do you not get the idea of "Head Canon"? It's what I thought about it, how I made it make sense to me. Not saying it's what happened, not saying it's what Mr. King meant when he wrote the book. It's just my idea. And I've obviously read several books, some of them without pictures.

[@Doomman213]

@@lexxstrumthat dude is a douche, your idea is pretty dope.

[@ragereset2795]

This montage beats the entire series. Just goes to show, the remake had some beautiful shots, some great performances, lots of talented people clearly worked really hard on it.. but the story was mangled and told in a nonsensical manner. Why pay all that money for a Stephen King story, then fiddle with it like you know better than him how to tell it. Maybe I’ll live long enough to see a third remake. Can’t be worse than 2020’s.

[@OutNumbered41]

Several things about this I don't like. First, King never states that Flagg was responsible for Agent Blue getting out both in the lab itself, nor Campion escaping. Flagg was described as an agent of chaos. He was an opportunist. One could say he took opportunity here, but that simply gives him a larger role in the plague portion of the novel where it simply didn't exist. Second, the novel states that the lab was underground. There is a detailed description of the elevator system that prevented people from getting out. This is why Campion was stationed outside in the original miniseries. What I never understood is how he contracted it so easily when he wasn't exposed to the individuals inside the facility as shown here. Logically, this makes more sense, but throws certain elements out the window.

[@zanir2387]

att he beggining i wondered why the door of the lab looked damaged, then when i saw flagg, i understood the reason....

[@Theomite]

Yeah that makes the whole thing more sensible: the outbreak happened because Flagg made it happen.

[@MrClean3381]

I don't think that was the case in the book.. I think he just saw his opportunity after the accident. I could be wrong but he definitely wasn't holding the door with his boot

[@Theomite]

@@MrClean3381 No, in the book we never see the accident. The guy isn't even in the lab, he's a perimeter guard tasked with securing the compound gate and he uses the lag to escape to his home. So it's unusual how exactly he got infected from an airborne virus that was still killing people in minutes when the book started.

[@jeremiahc620]

That's like my only complaint about this new version is that they didn't play don't fear the reaper at the end of this scene instead.

[@Ghost-ch2md]

"The Dark Man is Here! The Dark man is Here!!!" 1:51

[@janethaagenstad8380]

I didn’t realize this was the 2020 version and didn’t see it. However I really liked the 1994 series.

[@josebro352]

Campion looks like that actor who played Trivette in Walker, Texas Ranger

[@coyoterunner]

There was never any breach in containment at a level-4 biohazard safety facility. How did he even become infected with Captain Tripps?

[@spaceballs44]

Easy look at Covid-19. No one can see a virus everything we touch can be passed around.

[@spaceballs44]

Also my spouse is in the Navy, before a vaccine a lot of people he works with still got infected no matter what they did to try to slow the spread.

[@edithsmith1524]

He was chosen to spread the virus, as Flagg needed the chaos to be born. In the book,Flagg uses the womb of an animal to gestate,but he draws energy from chaos. In short, Flagg wanted to cause mayhem and drain the energy from its aftereffects. Notice how his power wanes at the end of the movie. People stopped fearing and believing in him, so he got weaker.

[@chrisp.9172]

​@@edithsmith1524Still the best book I ever read! Just finishing up the unedited version..

[@urthboundmisfit]

It only takes one malfunction in the right place to let something leak out. Anyway, we see Flagg's direct involvement here.

[@mah7961]

I have a fever, and the prescription is. I need more cow bell.

[@Grubnar]

This song was also used to great effect at the beginning of a single episode of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

[@marilyn8020]

incredible job. this should have been how they did the trailer!

[@Freshwaterboy]

Always bothered me that Campion was exposed at the same time yet managed to get halfway across the country before he died.

[@eyeofbast]

It’s how viruses work. King wrote his novel and the re-edit years later with this concept having consulted with virologists. In this situation an engineered super virus would have this effect. Much like how the Wuhan did for those closer to the original outbreak. It’s about virus load. Thankfully, nature/God has stop-gap protection imbedded and even a powerful virus like Covid will run its course.

[@TimaScribbles]

really awesome video

[@capello5688]

M O O N That spells poor directional choices

[@acebalboa6050]

Laws yes

[@decker14626]

😂 excellent 👏

[@stevenmanchester2104]

Here is something useless. In both versions of The Stand, Campion tries to escape in a Chevy.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

THE FIRST ONE WAS WAY MUCH BETTER!

[@lesliemarshall3764]

The original is still one of the best opening title sequences ever made. The new version was awful.

[@XXXXXXXXXO]

YES! Thank you!

[@mrscottygreenwood]

Next time whoever reremakes it need a longer emphasis on that half hour before it gets out

[@anfilofeEA]

And this is how the COVID-19 Pandemic started

[@USBORNCITIZENWETHEPEOPLE]

So true and so far it has killed more the 6 million people around the world. Experts believe it has killed 7 million people.

[@moonbaby6134]

In wuhan

[@Azazel2024]

WUHAN STYLE KUNG FU PS DEADLY

[@thoughtcriminal9075]

This show is as exiting as watching paint dry.

[@jasonauric]

It's implied that Randall Flagg sabotaged the door failure. JS

[@emberparadox458]

He did, it's dark but you can see his foot holding the door open before its drawn back and the door fully closes.

[@mrbuck5059]

Randall Flag is the kid who went through the Jaunt awake 300 years in the future.

[@MurdochMacKinnon]

it's longer than you think!

[@TheJayTex]

Idk, Flagg to me was not the one that instigated the pandemic and the end of the world. I like idea that he is essentially just an agent of chaos and that it was this moment that he could feel the winds changing and it would be time for him to make his own stand

[@sm1tty031]

I agree with this assessment. Flagg felt it was his time to rule on that level of the Tower...IYKYK

[@christopherauzenne5023]

Same here, flagg being the one to instigate the virus/apocalypse implies he’s some master planner which isn’t really his character. He’s a “man” who wants chaos & destruction but the flaw in that is those things can’t be controlled even by him. Like a big part of his defeat was that he wanted chaotic & destructive people for his army and surprise surprise they were chaotic & destructive, trash can man deciding to bring a nuke to his central base, the women carrying his child bating him into killing her. His own desire was the very thing that led to his defeat

[@aperian6954]

This was Great! Well done!!!!

[@Tekknorg]

Empty room, suddenly scientist standing there. The Stand Remake - having thing ready without history.

[@Doombot]

Very nice. :) Good overlay.

[@J-CBertrand-tp6bg]

Good intro but nowhere as good as the 1994 The Stand intro.

[@BathSaltShaman]

If he wore his hair long, ditched the beard and, most importantly, had a better script and director to work, this guy would've fucking nailed it harder than anyone else because he has Flaggs charisma down to a science. Smooth, suave, seemingly laid back, but there something about the very sight of him that nearly triggers fight-or-flight. A quiet detail known only to your subconscious that your mind races to unlock, the cause of your unease, but will never discover until your soul is finally his.

[@urthboundmisfit]

There isn't any reason for him to have long hair. I don't remember him described that way in the book.

[@BathSaltShaman]

@@urthboundmisfit 1994 series and the graphic novel must’ve warped my view of the character lol

[@christopherauzenne5023]

@@urthboundmisfittrue the long hair is probably just cause the 90s series is still remembered/makes us associate Flagg with long hair. But I still think he should have long hair mainly because I always got a feeling that Flagg is meant to come off like an old school rocker (the classic Johnny cash/ sex drugs and rock n roll style musician) and personal taste the long hair works with that for me

[@mlongpre100]

everyone watching this thinks they would be one of the people who would be immune

[@georgespalding7640]

I thought this was a pretty good version of the stand myself. I wish they could've included a couple more characters though that were in the book. Also trashcan man could've been put forth in more detail because he was such an important character in the book.

[@jonathanvogt4341]

If only campion hadnt run....

[@MonsterMonsterMedia]

nice job dude

[@MrKalvinTube]

That was ducking scary that gave me chills

[@teddybetts3254]

0:09 The phone rings BEFORE you hear the alert beep on the computer. So unless the General just simply got alerted before the PFC, that doesn't make any sense.

[@kenandhoss]

This scene is remind me of the T Virus from the Resident Evil series or the Covid 19 in Real Life

[@jennmarkey2576]

Where do I find this movie?

[@youfoundisaac]

Paramount +

[@notbill08]

The book's opening is so much better!

[@jagc1969]

It would be really interesting to know the real procedure for a lockdown from someone who works on this kind of installation...

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

Believe it or not, much of that is classified.

[@adhemartucker8171]

Needs more cow bell 🛎 🐮 😂😅

[@AFuller2020]

Oh wow, a virus escapes from a lab, that could never happen in real life.....

[@anfilofeEA]

A virus did escape from a lab in real life. Covid escaped from the Wuhan lab

[@rowan7149]

@@anfilofeEA he was being sarcastic, that was the joke

[@achill6080]

When this came out in 94 it was unimaginable. When It came out the year of the virus it was so "shit your pants scary" it had to be pushed back a year.

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

It was deliberately released

[@victorbarbeau3130]

Science fiction 😅

[@singalongwrudy8690]

If ONLY we had more cowbell...

[@ReaverLordTonus]

I get it there was a supernatural element at play but so much of this doesn't make sense. The chamber the scientist was in would and should already be hermetically sealed. Even common household jars and Tupperware can stay airtight without the aid of electricity or computers if they're already closed. So if the guy outside of it pushing a button and staying put is your only defense then you're asking for disaster. If he can be infected by what's in there then why isn't he wearing a hazmat suit? Better still why is he in the same freaking room breathing the same air? At least the original movie made more sense that there was a breach and it wiped everyone out too quickly to contain it.

[@MynameisDUmass]

Exactly why I hate remakes

[@ReaverLordTonus]

​@Inyourhideyhole oh I'm not done! Where the heck is everyone else, for something that dangerous, even in the early hours of the morning, you expect me to believe that only one guy is on the whole base? Itnwiukd be a terrorists' wet dream to be able to attack a base so poorly defended. Also if there's a lockdown protocol, that wouldn't be the only door. Say what you want about the government's over inflated defense budget, but when there's an opportunity for a contractor to get extra $$ to install redundancies on top of redundancies, you best believe they're going to. There'd be at least 2 more doors between that guy and the outside world that would automatically seal. Yeah, this remake sucks.

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

How did he get infected??

[@doppelganger3992]

Flagg in the back seat was scary, I hear its wasn't the greatest adaptation though.

[@kainschild]

If you watch the original when the military guy's car crashes into the gas station he tells Stu that he kept seeing the dark man in the backseat and he couldn't outrun him. I did like the way they showed that in this version but yeah I heard too that this version had a ton of problems.

[@n.h.420]

They really dropped the ball with this mess..sucks too cause this dude actually was a pretty good randall flagg.. really good creepy smile when hes next to the kid in the back seat.

[@paraguaymike5159]

Lame, in comparison with the 1994 original.

[@nugsovile4333]

It's lame that they remade it, it was perfect as it was.

[@Steven_CA93]

Das stimmt

[@caleb-gt7pf]

I wish the remake would happen but its to close to reality to put out there

[@FSMWorshiper]

If the virus was that deadly...it would never have spread. Those folks would have died before they could have infected anyone. A virus needs time to spread, especially one that is highly fatal. Later, when they show folks coughing lightly, etc. - would be a more realistic scenario where people had the opportunity to spread it to others, many, many others - long before they thought they were infected.

[@donmehl556]

I really wish they had spliced this together is chronological order because I cannot follow the story jumping around between different times. It is confusing and does not add anything to the story. Especially if you have read the book.

[@biffyqueen]

The dying scientist looks like Gene Simmons.

[@Izzyduude]

Apparently more cowbell couldn’t save America from the doom that was thrust upon it.

[@zee3586]

1:40

[@Ogrematic]

In the book, Flagg had nothing to do with Campion escaping.

[@geneclark3600]

with all the lame remakes they doing...they need to do this story, was good.

[@BenjaminHeyman]

They should have gotten McConaughey to play Flagg.

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

The opening on the 1994 version was better

[@MynameisDUmass]

Amen ❤

[@unculturedswan]

This series could have been so cool, its ok... but if "don't fear the reaper" was in the new one, c'mon. I wish remakes would be more faithful to the og instead of cutting stuff, i wish they would add newer stuff on top of the old stuff or change what the people didn't like, that would have done it.

[@firebatrazerbat]

waaaaay better!

[@usermae1407]

Hahahaha. Not

[@VictorMonarque]

Watching this miniseries right now, but I could do without seeing that Whoopi Goldberg is also cast in this. As far as I can see her character is not looking the 108 years old the character is supposed to be. Plus I just can't stand the woman.

[@urthboundmisfit]

There's no one way to look 108. But yeah, she doesn't really fit.

[@davidwarren5628]

Thought it'd be a great remake. Then there was Woopi. I cut off the TV. Sad, that's all. That part should've been given to a much better person.

[@MrClean3381]

They do a remake and turn out this crap 🙄 would have been great to see an improved version of what happened inside the lab! Was looking forward to how they did the intro! Fail

[@TrevorMom]

Why would kiddies remake an excellent series? Can't they come with anything unique?

[@alonzosymalla8638]

The Gary Sinese 1994 miniseries was a superior telling of the King story. Altough, I thought Molly Ringwold was totally miscast.

[@JamesFuentes526]

Really? I thought she was on point since Fran seemed like a privileged whiny girl that came through naturally with Ringwald.

[@princesssmileyface91]

Ehh, I liked the original 🤷🏻‍♀️ this was one of those things, that should have never been touched.

[@usermae1407]

Truth

[@urthboundmisfit]

I saw some of it but didn't think much of it. Mother Abigail was hokey as hell and there were too many famous actors in it. I know that sounds weird but their being there kind of took away from the gravity of the story. And Flagg was just all wrong. Haven't seen the new one.

[@IdlesQueen]

The 2020 version was unnecessary and though it boasted a large budget, the 1994 version, dated and lovably corny as it is, is far superior

[@Azazel2024]

Whomever did this horrible travesty should never be allowed near media again

[@billbixby557]

I've now seen about three or four different scenes of this remake and how do I put this...they are weak AF! I understand the companies need to make money so they rehash good ideas and everything but they probably should have left this classic alone.

[@patrickmgaddis]

Needs more cowbell.

[@timbonjovi]

Needs more cowbell

[@Youngstown529]

More cowbell.

[@blank-nl8ef]

$Beardy

[@DarkmanRides]

An infected bat came across a Pangolin and got sold in the wet meat market across the street from the coronavirus lab total accident😂

[@jiggysaw8406]

The only good part about the whole thing

[@angelaanaconda5837]

"MORE COWBELL" 🔔🔔

[@Vaeleagle]

Der Song ist gut, aber die neue TV Serie war leider Schrott.

[@DonLoco3]

Neither of the attempts to make a movie/series out of the book have been worth watching IMO. Just couldn't capture any of the magic, the darkness of the book, only campy bullshit.

[@urthboundmisfit]

That's what I thought of the first one. Haven't seen the second. It really needs to be a TV series and they need to cast unknowns with some talent.

[@markusmarkus2164]

This show had a good hock until they decided to go supernatural like steven king usually thus and it ruins it

[@spookrockcity]

1994 was better

[@CarbonGlassMan]

Garbage remake. The original is the best.

[@jimjohnston526]

Whole 2020 version was a woke piece of crap.

[@DaveH-10]

One of the worst remakes in history. This sucked

[@ericcartman7361]

Agreed. Only thing I liked about it was Harold and Franny. Hoping Franny’s actress gets another Stephen King gig.

[@jordanhawk8992]

I liked the general

[@keithconti9666]

the new one sucked

[@elijahwilliams4043]

Looking at this small clip is making me sleepy 😴. The original is 10000 times better then is 💩 💩 💩

[@2lip663]

original show is so much better. New one is garbage

[@christhesmith]

'94 did it better....this was not good.