Purpose of this edit

The Stand is a fantastic miniseries. And often unfairly maligned because of the poor visual effects (true) and terribly literal “Hand of God” finale (also true). Despite it’s flaws, I have enjoyed this behemoth every time I have watched it. But one thing I could rarely do? Watch it all in a single day. And certianly never in a single night. It runs around 6 hours and 40 minutes.

My goal was simple: Cut back the miniseries into a single-sitting feature-length film. I decided that the final product could be no longer than The Godfather Part II, which clocks-in at 3 hours and 21 minutes. I originally did this edit with a DVD source and it came out okay-ish, but there were both narrative and quality problems. Once I heard that there would be a BluRay release I got very excited to try again.

This Cinematic Cut of The Stand clocks in at a comparatively svelte 3 hours and 5 minutes. And also makes heavy use of popular music for it’s soundtrack. Everything from Procol Harem to The Police to Pink Floyd. I think this came out very well and I am excited to share it with you.

Please enjoy, and your feedback is very welcome.

Specs

• Release Date: March 30, 2020
• Running Time: 185 Minutes
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (720p Pan & Scan)
• Codecs: h.265/AAC
• File Size: 7.93GB

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List of Major Edits

What follows is a list of all the major, noticable edits in the film. Every frame was tweaked or updated in some way.

• All-new opening sequence.
• 26 new pop/rock songs featured throughout.
• Colour-graded many scenes and sequences.
• 5 new composite shots
• Cropped to 16:9 (and lovingly pan-and-scanned throughout)
• I broke the miniseries down into 131 unique sequences. 91 of were not removed entirely, of that group, only the following were not trimmed or tightened in some way:
  • Nadine’s Gone
  • Mother Abigail’s Prayer of Repentance
  • Fran’s Dream (for now)
  • Tom is Identified
  • Nadine Runs Out of Gas
  • Stu Has the Flu?
  • Glen v. Flagg (best scene)
  • Stu’s Struggle
  • The End of Vegas
• Cut the Project Blue outbreak scene.
• Cut the Fly Buddy commercial.
• Cut the Police Check-in.
• Cut the first meeting with Larry.
• Cut Vic’s death.
• Cut Nick’s dream.
• Cut the Times Square Chaos.
• Cut Nick setting off for Nebraska.
• Cut the insert of the Monster Shouter (both of them).
• Cut Flagg killing the deer.
• Cut the convoy to Colorado.
• Cut the appendix operation.
• Cut the funeral of the appendix operation guy.
• Cut Stu and Fran telling Harold about their relationship.
• Cut turning on the power.
• Removed two of the spies – Judge and Dana.
• Cut Nadine and Flagg’s drive to Vegas.
• Cut Tom sneaking past the guards.
• Cut everything after the bomb goes off in Vegas.

Changelog

Version 1.0

• Initial release from poor-quality source

Verse 2.0

• Re-release in HD from Bluray source