The Stand novel — published in 1978 and still Stephen King’s finest novel to date, in my opinion — follows a global virus outbreak that kills more than 99% of the population.
That’s what James Marsden told Variety about The Stand series, which started filming back in September 2019 in Vancouver.
It’s not quite the coronavirus, although a fear of something like the virus in The Stand or Contagion has many people on edge.
More recently, the coronavirus has started to spread around the globe.