10 Stephen King Remakes, Ranked

The 1994 mini-series adaptation of King’s much-loved 1978 darkish fantasy novel a few devastating international pandemic made some decisions that haven’t aged all that effectively, however on the entire it stays pleasant, with standout performances from Jamey Sheridan (as Randall Flagg, an evil imaginative and prescient in his denim-on-denim outfits) and Matt Frewer (as fringe character Trashcan Man), amongst others. The 2020 CBS All Access (now Paramount+) miniseries—which had the unlucky/eerie luck to be launched in December 2020, on the peak of an precise, real-world pandemic—boasted a stellar forged (Whoopi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear, James Marsters, Nat Wolff, Alexander Skarsgård), however its 9 episodes felt oddly paced, like there was each an excessive amount of and but not sufficient house to inform King’s sprawling ensemble story. Even worse, the much-hyped “new ending,” written by King himself, felt each unmemorable and pointless.