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In reply to the discussion: Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Planned as Four Movies; Director Teases A-List Cast [View all]Aristus
(66,623 posts)11. I hope they leave out the whole sequence with Trashcan Man's encounter with The Kid.
That whole chapter was repellent in the extreme. It's not simply that The Kid is repulsive (he's supposed to be); it's that the whole story sequence is revolting. IIRC, King cut this sequence from the original edit and substituted a shorter encounter in which Trashcan Man meets a sullen, monosyllabic older man who makes a brief attempt at molesting him, and then backs off; he soon disappears from the story completely.
Other than that, looking forward to a big-screen adaptation.
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Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Planned as Four Movies; Director Teases A-List Cast [View all]
LanternWaste
May 2015
OP
When King had it re-released, he restored some 600 pages that had been edited out
pinboy3niner
May 2015
#6
My initial thought for Nadine was Lizzie Caplan and Mandy Patinkin as Glen Bateman
LanternWaste
May 2015
#27
OT Have you read or seen Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? n/t
discntnt_irny_srcsm
May 2015
#28
I've seen the 1970's production, but have never read the book (hangs head in abject shame)
LanternWaste
May 2015
#29
I hope they leave out the whole sequence with Trashcan Man's encounter with The Kid.
Aristus
May 2015
#11
The miniseries divided it pretty well into four intuitive parts I thought.
LanternWaste
May 2015
#24