The Stand: The Cinematic Cut

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THE 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.

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.