You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris, where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts, literally, to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem.

Last week I took a trip to Vancouver to visit the set of the new production of Stephen King's The Stand.

It's a nine-part miniseries for CBS All Access, the network's uncensored commercial-free streaming subscription service.

A surprising number of people ask me about it, how it felt, did it seemed weird to be in this alternate universe

of a production based on the same book that I adapted into a mini series 25 years ago

well yeah it did feel weird but not in a bad way.

It was exciting and fascinating to see the story we told back in the 90s being told anew for the new millennium.

New cast, new technology, new locations,

new everything.

When we did the miniseries for ABC back then,

it was an overwhelmingly large project.

We shot for a hundred days in 95 scripted locations in six

states with 126 speaking parts from a four hundred sixty-page screenplay by

Stephen King himself. It was massive and we were on the road for so much of that time.

At that time, the horror genre was rarely served well on television. The budgets were paltry and the films were

made by whoever happened to be available. There weren't really any filmmakers who

were passionate about the genre, save for very rare productions like John Carpenter's

someone's watching me or Toby Hooper's Salem's lot. The budget for the

stand was substantial for its time and we moved through our Gantuan production exhausted but excited

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