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When Stephen King’s gigantic play “Time of the Plague” has been turned into a television series, Alexander Skarsgård is responsible for the evil. – Alex is the greatest devil of all time, says his opponent Amber Heard.
Alexander Skargård as Randall Flagg and Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid in Stephen King’s series “The stand.” Press the image.
When Taylor Elmore, one of the producers behind the TV series remake of Stephen King’s epic “The stand / The time of the plague,” first talks about the Swedish actor in a Zoom interview, he’s full of enthusiasm.
– Alexander Skarsgård is a beautiful sample of a man, he tells TT and immediately adds:
– It’s scary and scary and helped give the role a Norse threat.
“The Time of the Plague”, published 42 years ago, is a brick novel (in its full version of almost 1,200 pages) about how a laboratory-induced virus enters society and erases 99 percent of the population of Land. The survivors of the United States face off in a battle between good and evil: the good guys are led in the television series by the former Mother Abigail (Woopie Goldberg), the wicked by the charismatic Randall Flagg, aka The Dark Man. The flag is played by Alexander Skarsgård.
When TT via Zoom talks to most of the actors, Skarsgård is not present. He is in Northern Ireland, where, along with Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor Joy (from “The Queen’s Tactic”) and Claes Bang, he is filming the Viking drama “The Northman.” But his “The Stand” co-star likes to talk about him. Amber Heard, who plays the treacherous Nadine on the show, says:
– Alex is the best devil of all.
Nat Wolff, who plays Lloyd Henreid, completes:
– We’ve done a series together before, even then he made me commit murder. It has a bad influence on me. No, he is a good friend and the longest blonde person I know. Alex is a wonderful person and an incredible actor. It dives right into what it’s supposed to do. He’s also terrifying, captivating, and charismatic like Flagg. And it is so high.
Benjamin Cavell, who wrote the script, says it was demanding to condense Stephen King’s thick book into a television series.
– We work very carefully. You decide what story you want to tell, what you can dramatize, and then it’s our job to make it work on the TV box. We see it as a nine-hour movie, with a photo that shows those huge, empty landscapes that people walk through.
Has Stephen King been involved? Yes, to say the least.
– King was convinced by what we had written. Since then he’s written a new ending, he’s written the entire episode nine.
A television series about a pandemic caused by a cold virus is relevant to say the least today. Greg Kinnear, who plays Glen Bateman, agrees that there are parallels between “The stand” and the reality that many people live in today.
– We all have to adapt, we have to change, we have to reevaluate our existence. The series is about people who survive, how they act on each other, how relationships change, and how jealousy and anger change them.
“The stand” premieres on HBO Nordic on December 17.
“The support”
Based on the novel by Stephen King with the same original title (in Swedish “Pestens tid”). The book was published as early as 1978.
Stephen King himself has written a new ending for the television series.
Directed by Josh Boone and roles include Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Amber Heard, and Odessa Young.
It consists of nine episodes and premieres December 17 on HBO Nordic.
