#Ralph Brentner

[gawsby]

STEPHEN KING THE STAND

Excellent illustrations by Patrick Samons

The Walkin Dude;

Fran Goldsmith, Mother Abigail, Stu Redman;

Nick Andros, Julie Lawry, Harold Lauder;

Lloyd Henreid, Kojak, Tom Cullen;

Glen Bateman, Larry Underwood, Trashcan Man;

Nadine Cross, Ralph Brentner, Harold Lauder;

Julie Lawry, Lloyd Henreid, Randall Flagg;

The Walkin Dude.

[tweets-from-the-tower]

[kieselguhrkid]

THE WALK // The Stand (2020) You are to leave now, today, on foot. You are to take no food and no water, just the clothes on your back.

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

I’m going back to The Stand (1994). You guys want anything?

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh yeah I knew someone was missing. We’ve got Ray Brentner instead of Ralph Brentner:

Ray:You figured the “Injun girl” must knows the ways of the Earth, least enough for you to find water so you won’t shit yourselves to death? Stu and Larry: Well, can you? Ray: Of course. [chuckling]

[m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog]

Glen: Who broke the coffee pot? I’m not mad, I just want to know

Everyone:

Tom Cullen: I did it, Tom Cullen broke the coffee pot.

Glen: No. No, you didn’t. Stu?

Stu: If it matters, probably not, Larry was the last one to use it

Larry: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap

Stu: Oh, really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Larry: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Stu!

Ralph: Okay, let’s not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Glen.

Glen: No! Who broke it?

Larry: Nick has been awfully quiet…

Nick: *writing* Really? Oh my god!

[Everyone Arguing]

Glen, to the camera: I broke it. It burned my hand so I punched it. I predict 10 minutes from now they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick

Glen: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here

[violetti-spaghetti]

God found out about the Stand adaptation and now he's talking to us.

[dalekofchaos]

The Stand Fancast

My Other Stephen King Fancasts

The Shining

It Chapter 2

Hugh Dancy as Stuart Redman

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Fran Goldsmith

Charlie Cox as Larry Underwood

Daniel Radcliffe as Nick Andros

Mads Mikkelsen as Randall Flagg

Alfre Woodard as Mother Abagail Freemantle

Rosamund Pike as Nadine Cross

Sarah Paulson as Rita Blakemoor

Brendan Gleeson as Ralph Brentner

Will Poulter as Harold Lauder

Jamie Bell as Tom Cullen

Christoph Waltz as Glen Bateman

Sam Rockwell as Lloyd Henreid

Michael Rooker as Andrew 'Poke' Freeman

Ben Foster as Trashcan-Man

Danielle Panabaker as Lucy Swann

Laurence Fishburne as Judge Ferris

Naomie Harris as Dayna Jergens

Emma Roberts as Julie Lawry

Dean Norris as Barry Dorgan

Millie Bobby Brown as Joe/Leo

Elizabeth Banks as Susan Stern

Terry O’Quinn as Whitney Horgen

Eliza Dushku as Jenny Egstrom

[poorlymadesockpuppet]

30 days of Stephen King characters 

 Week two: The Stand 

 Day eight: a hero 

Glen Bateman, Larry Underwood, Stu Redman, and Ralph Brentner

 "I will fear no evil."

[dankomanuels]

i just found out two pieces of casting news abt the stand 2020 and i’m losing my mcfuckign mind

[ilikestuff69]

The Stand Fancast Pt 2

Rita Blakemoor played by Nicole Kidman

Ralph Brentner played by Tyler Labine

Tom Cullen played by Elden Henson

Lucy Swann played by Mackenzie Davis

Judge Farris played by Ving Rhames

Whitney Horgen played by John Carroll Lynch

Dayna Jurgens played by Jessica Henwick

Susan Stern played by Holland Roden

Julie Lawry played by Kathryn Newton

Trashcan Man played by Danny McBride

[binickandros]

Here There be Monsters - Chapter 19: Shelter

AO3 | ff.net

A fanfic for The Stand

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: None

Relationships: Nick Andros/OFC

Characters: Nick Andros, Original Female Character(s), Abagail Freemantle, Randall Flagg,Tom Cullen, Julie Lawry, Stu Redman, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, Ray Brentner, Lloyd Henreid, Glen Bateman

Additional Tags: Canon Disabled Character, Canonical Character Death, Deaf Character, Bisexual Nick Andros, Former Sex Worker Nick Andros, Fix-It of Sorts, Canon Compliant, but only like sorta, because OC, Canon - Book, but a smidge of 2020 adaptation, Slow Burn, Plague, beware of FLU, Eventual Smut, Two Dumbass Bisexuals, being dumbasses, Until They Dumbass Fall in Love, Hurt/Comfort, Falling In Love, Idiots in Love, Sharing a Bed, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Gender or Sex Swap, Female Ralph Brenter, Female Glen Batemen, Bisexual Female Character of Color, Bisexual Male Character, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Past Abuse, Rating: NC17, Penis In Vagina Sex, Non-Penetrative Sex, Friendship/Love, Male Friendship, Female Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, just LOTS of friendship okay???, Cross-Generational Friendship, Sexual Tension

Summary: "When the map says 'Here There Be Monsters', I know you’ll fight them all, and I wanna be the one to fight them with you."

Nick Andros didn't ask for a front row seat to the end of the world, but here he is, and there it goes. It all starts with the dreams: lost in a cornfield searching for a woman he's never met before. Her name is Kai, and she's dreaming of him too. Meanwhile Captain Trips sinks its teeth into the world, and something evil slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.

[sturedmans]

good: 

jovan adepo is fantastic as larry, as i hoped

i’m already VERY into irene bedard as a genderbent ralph brentner - more native american roles please and thank you!  i love that they maintained ralph’s loyalty to mother abigail right off the bat 

i no shit shrieked when nick showed up and i cannot even pretend to have any chill about it.  love of my life nick andros and his eyepatch and his serious little face!!!  god!! 

alexander skarsgard is already killing it (heh) as flagg 

i really like nat wolff as lloyd but i have more thoughts about that later

furthermore the lloyd introduction is good!  the book introduction is an entertaining chapter but the writers chopped it down to fit pretty well 

the special effects are fucking gruesome and somehow i’d never really thought about what trips looks like despite reading the book probably a dozen times? blurgh

bad: 

the larry storyline is moving WAY too quickly to have any meaning, especially when the entire point of his character is to show that people are capable of change.  i realize that his beginning in the novel is pretty drawn-out, but condensing it down to “rockstar with addiction issues -> disappointed mom -> mom dead -> uh oh! everyone’s dead!” isn’t... great 

likewise, larry/rita is moving way too fast/is too condensed, and it’s a shame that he’s going to wake up to find her dead next episode because it’s going to be stripped of basically all meaning for the viewer - he was never really responsible for her like book larry was (obviously deepening his sense of failure when she dies) and they’ve known each other for two days in this universe, whereas in the book they’d been travelling together for at least a week.  not a huge difference normally, but when the show’s timeline is roughly two months, that’s a big change.  the lack of an otherwise-petty fight before he tells her to fuck off in the city also just makes him telling her to fuck off in the sewers seem like inconsistent writing 

what the hell was the point of swapping it so that instead of finding his mom at home and taking her to the hospital, he found his mom at the hospital and took her home? 

HATED the swap from the tunnel to the sewers. hated hated hated. i realize that was probably purely a budget thing but the tunnel scene is absolutely iconic and one of the other real pieces of Stephen King Horror that we get in the novel, and it’s a really effective way of showing the that the us military was preventing people from leaving the city!  was cbs discouraged from showing that the military/government was one of the primary antagonists early on? 

the larry-meets-harold scene should have been way longer and i just say that because it’s one of the best scenes in the book 

observations: 

i fucking knew they were going to make lloyd semi-sympathetic as soon as they cast nat wolff.  i’m not mad about it!  lloyd is one of my favorite characters in the book, and i don’t hate that they shifted things more towards the “lloyd really was a small-time criminal in the company of a psychopath murderer” angle that lloyd’s lawyer was going to use in the novel

i dig that they’re leaning into the flagg/lloyd subtext in the book (”you’re a beautiful fella”)

i like the gorgeous george reference with his cellmate! 

nick next week?  please god let nick’s story be next week and take up most of the time, i am praying they don’t chop-and-screw his section like they did larry’s 

[kieselguhrkid]

Fucking bleeding-heart bullshit.

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

The Stand character + Halloween HCs?

YES! Thank you! I haven’t written anything in quite a while because it’s become difficult for me, as some of you guys know from my personal posts, but I will do my best!!!! 

@m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog & I discussed these HC’s a short while ago so these come from both of us!!: 

First off, they all live in houses in the same neighborhood and are delightfully in suburbia!!

Larry & Lucy spend the whole Halloween season preparing for the 31st and decorating their house. They also really, really hope to get Leo excited for the holiday in the hopes that their kid might go out and socialize!!

Leo is not into it. He’d much rather stay home and watch scary movies with Larry and then proceed to scare the crap outta Larry with his own jump-scares. 

Tom’s decorations are magnificent. Decoration is his hobby, y’know? His home is decked out with beautifully detailed creatures and chillingly spooky art pieces. The neighbors can all walk through his lawn and admire the work!

Tom’s got at least 1 special decoration for each of his friends!! It scares Larry every frickin’ year but he always goes for Tom!! PLUS Leo seems to really enjoy visiting Tom & seeing all his spooky stuff. 

One time, Larry took Leo through Tom’s haunted house and Leo legit took off and deserted poor, poor Larry who thought he might die of fright. 

Larry found Leo at home, carving a Pumpkin with Lucy and luckily, she was the one handling the kitchen knife. 

Nick loves Tom, as you know, but he’s also very scared of some of the decorations because...he’s deaf and some of those things pop out behind him outta nowhere without warning!! He desperately tries not to show this fear because Tom is so happy whenever he visits!!

Tom is so interested in the decorations and though they might scare him at first, as long as he gets close and admires it, he’s completely fine with them and can’t wait to put them up!! 

Stu & Frannie always have a cute couples costume and give out full sized candy-bars to the trick-or-treaters.

Stu & Frannie may get their 4th of July BBQ’s and Christmas parties but Halloween is all Larry & Lucy’s!!

They all have to put up with Larry’s drunken karaoke but it’s fine because Lucy cheers him on with the excitement of a girl at a rock concert every single time. 

Larry sings a cover of Bryan Adam’s ‘(Everything I Do) I Do it For You’ but instead it’s ‘(Everything I Do) I Do it For Stu’

Stu is swaying in the audience with a lighter which only encourages Larry.

Nick has taken up dancing with Frannie.  

Glen falls asleep in their hammock with Kojack laying under him who’s in a funny little dog costume that Frannie put together. Tom is taking some time to sit in the grass and pet Kojak, watching all of his best friends with a smile on his face. Sometimes Glen wakes up and they share some stories. 

Ralph & Mother Abagail are managing the Underwood’s front porch to give out the candy!!

Harold has managed to get a huge collection of PayDay’s and walks around the neighborhood a bit to see the cool houses.

Dayna & Susan are pretending to fist-fight and whipping candy at each other. 

Judge Farris is sitting on the back porch and waiting for Larry to tire himself out so they can get some conversation in. He knows Larry get’s emotional when he’s drunk.

Hopefully he gets to him before Larry tries to jump in the hammock w/ Glen....

They all gather for a little after-party bonfire & make smores once the trick-or-treaters slow down. 

Larry, Lucy, Frannie & Stu are all cuddled under Stu’s large flannel blanket.

And after the long, fun night, Larry & Lucy come home and binge some Mac&Cheese with Leo. 

Stu & Frannie pay their sitter and curl up next to their baby’s crib. 

Glen & Ralph take Kojak on one last walk before they each go their separate ways home. 

Everyone goes home, already eager to see each other all again...

I hope this was ok!! THANK YOU for sending!!! 

[aion-rsa]

Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand

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This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension.

The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.

A motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC — which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier — gave The Stand the green light.

King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. Unlike It and a second ABC/King miniseries, 1993’s The Tommyknockers — both of which had been four hours — The Stand was developed as a four-night, eight-hour event, containing a little over six hours of content after commercials. Budgeted at $26 million, featuring more than 125 speaking parts, and shot over six months in Utah, Las Vegas and other locations, The Stand premiered on ABC from May 8 – 11, 1994.

The Stand begins with the spread of a military-created bioweapon that becomes known as the superflu or Captain Trips after it escapes from a high-security lab. The flu’s 99% mortality rate ensures that human civilization is all but wiped out, although the remaining 1% is completely immune for reasons unexplained.

As the survivors in the U.S. struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with tens of millions of rotting corpses, they are plagued by mysterious dreams that draw them to one of two places. Some head for Boulder, Colorado, where it seems as if decent, “good” people are gathering around an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail who claims to speak for God, while others of a less kind bent congregate in Las Vegas under the rule of Randall Flagg, a “dark man” with supernatural powers who is a powerful demon in human form.

As the two groups assemble, it becomes clear that a confrontation is shaping up, with four of the Boulder Free Zone’s leaders — and four of our main characters — eventually heading to Las Vegas where they will make their “stand” against Flagg.

Even with six hours to fill, King and Garris had to do quite a bit of condensing to fit The Stand into its format. Nevertheless, just about all the major plot points and characters from the book make it into the miniseries, even if some don’t quite get the development they deserve. Yet the show moves along at a decent if unhurried pace, giving one time to invest in the story and the characters enough to care about what happens and who survives (many don’t).

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The cast is a grab-bag of faces from both the big and small screen. Gary Sinise — months away from his breakout role in Forrest Gump — is absolutely perfect as Stu Redman, the Texas blue collar everyman who is among the first to make contact with the superflu and walk away unscathed. Also quite effective are Rob Lowe as the saintly deaf mute Nick Andros, who becomes one of the leaders of the Free Zone, Ray Walston as the sarcastic sociology professor Glen Bateman, and Bill Fagerbakke as the sweet, intellectually disabled Tom Cullen.

Less impressive but improving over the course of the six hours is Adam Storke as the self-centered rock musician Larry Underwood. Larry is a crucial character in The Stand: it’s his ability to evolve from a selfish narcissist to a leader willing to sacrifice himself that is key to the triumph of good over evil. Storke has his moments and Larry does blossom in the latter stages of the story, but he doesn’t pull off the character’s transformation as effectively as one might have hoped.

More compelling are Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross (a character who, in the show, is a hybrid of the book’s Nadine and Larry’s doomed traveling companion Rita Blakemoor) and Corin Nemec as Harold Lauder. The former has promised herself to Flagg, while the latter is an incel on steroids; together they plot a terrorist attack to kill the Free Zone’s leaders before skipping town for Vegas. They too are doomed, but their collision course with each other and their fate is decidedly repulsive.

Of the major “good” characters, it’s sad to say that Molly Ringwald just doesn’t pull her weight as Frannie Goldsmith, the pregnant young woman who is the object of Harold’s desire but whom ultimately falls in love with Stu. Ringwald comes across as naïve and whiny, and her acting here is a pale shadow of her glory years in movies like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. More effective, excellent in fact, is Miguel Ferrer as Lloyd Henreid, the small-time crook and killer who becomes the take-charge right hand man to  Flagg in Las Vegas, and an over-the-top Matt Frewer as the Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac who Flagg entrusts with finding weapons left out in the Nevada desert by the government.

Which brings us to Flagg and his opposite, Mother Abigail. Flagg, a recurring embodiment of evil and treachery in many King novels and stories, was reportedly the hardest role to cast. Although King and Garris initially wanted a Hollywood star, they went with the lesser known Jamey Sheridan, who brings a kind of manic glee to the role even if his heavy metal wig is questionable. Ruby Dee was practically born to play Mother Abigail (she even told Fangoria magazine that “her whole life had been research” for the part), and while the character as originally written suffers from King’s tendency to create “magical Negros” for his stories, Dee still brings poignancy and dignity to the role.

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If we’ve spent a lot of time on the casting, that’s because The Stand really does live or die — and in this case it’s the former — on the strength of the characters and their relationships. Even if some of the acting is more on a typical TV level (or even below), Garris and King and their cast succeed in making you care about what happens to these people as they first survive the plague and then summon the fortitude to not just restart civilization but face an ultimate evil before they can barely catch a breath.

But Garris brings plenty of other effective touches to the show, starting with the panoramic vistas that he shoots to emphasize just how empty the world has become. The show does have an epic sweep to a lot of it, even with the restrictions of TV back in 1994, and W.G. Snuffy Walden’s (who is best known for scoring The West Wing) spare, evocative score goes a long way toward setting the melancholic yet ominous tone that Garris evokes through most of The Stand’s six hours.

There are also some truly memorable setpieces, starting with the opening tracking shot of corpses strewn all over the underground military lab to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.” Stu’s harrowing escape from the lab in which he is kept is pretty terrifying stuff for 1990s television, and while we wish Larry’s walk through a Lincoln Tunnel stuffed with dead cars and bodies lasted a bit longer, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Although Mother Abigail’s home is clearly a set on a soundstage, the moment in which she looks back at it as she leaves for Boulder, knowing she’ll never see it again, is quietly moving, as is the moment when Larry, Glen and Ralph Brentner (Peter Van Norden) have to leave an injured Stu behind on their long walk to Vegas.

The climax, the “stand” of the title, is problematic, but that’s possibly because it’s always been a hotly debated moment in the novel as well. Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph are instructed by a dying Mother Abigail to walk to Vegas and confront Flagg. As we mentioned, only Larry, Glen and Ralph make it; Glen is shot to death by Lloyd Henreid in his cell, while Larry and Ralph are to be publicly executed by dismemberment, in front of the entire population of Vegas, on Flagg’s orders.

Just as the execution is getting underway, a radiation-sick Trashcan Man returns from the desert with a nuclear weapon in tow. With the men of the Free Zone having shown their worth to God by facing Flagg with courage and offering to give their lives to defeat him, the Almighty takes over from there. He turns a little ball of electricity that Flagg used to fry a traitor in the crowd into a manifestation of “the hand of God,” detonating the bomb and wiping out Flagg, his minions, and our selfless heroes.

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While many have criticized this scene in both the book and miniseries as a “deus ex machina” climax, it actually makes sense: the Free Zone heroes can only do much themselves against an immortal, powerful being like Flagg. They can weaken him, but they can’t quite destroy him. Once they’ve proven themselves, however, by standing up to Flagg and his unknowable evil with faith and courage, God finishes the job. The problem is that in the book, Larry and Ralph interpret the thing in the sky as the “hand of God.” In the miniseries, Garris made it look like an actual hand.

That adds a layer of cheesiness to what is otherwise a strong climax, as does having Mother Abigail’s disembodied, cooing head float above the crib of Frannie’s baby in the hospital during the closing moments, looking like a cutout picture of Ruby Dee’s face slapped on the glass window of the nursery. It’s effective and emotional to have the show close on a shot of the baby, sleeping peacefully and virus-free and metaphorically carrying the future on her tiny back, but the Abigail phantom almost ruins it.

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For all its faults — its dated view of the American populace (even with 99% percent of the world wiped out, there are far too few people of color among the survivors), its creaky fashions, its occasionally cut-rate visual effects and its uneven acting — The Stand still holds up pretty decently. Sinise and the stronger actors do much of the heavy lifting, the story and stakes are clearly laid out, and the viewer becomes involved in the characters and their struggle.  Now more than 25 years later, The Stand is being adapted again by Josh Boone (The New Mutants) and Benjamin Cavell (King’s son Owen is also a producer and writer on the project). The 10-part miniseries will debut Thursday (December 17) on CBS All Access, and in addition to a different structure for the story, the series will feature a brand new ending written by Stephen King himself. In the meantime, the original 1994 version still has heart, plenty of it, and for King and Mick Garris, it was evidently a labor of love. It may be far from perfect, but one could say it stands on its own two feet.

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