“I read The Stand under my bed when I was 12, and my Baptist parents burned it in our fireplace upon discovery,” said Boone in his own statement accompanying the project’s announcement. In its aftermath, the survivors find themselves pushed to choose between the forces of good, led by an enigmatic 108-year-old woman, and allegiance to the evil entity known as Randall Flagg, who wields powerful supernatural abilities. I believe it will take viewers away to a world they hope will never happen.”įirst published in 1978, The Stand unfolds as an apocalyptic pandemic ravages the world, killing off 99% of the population and causing the total breakdown of society. The result bids to be something memorable and thrilling. “The people involved are men and women who know exactly what they’re doing the scripts are dynamite. “I’m excited and so very pleased that The Stand is going to have a new life on this exciting new platform,” said King in a statement accompanying the announcement. King’s best-selling novel was previously adapted as a four-part miniseries that aired on ABC in 1994 and earned six Emmy Award nominations and won two awards for sound mixing and makeup. Boone will co-write and direct the 10-episode adaptation for the CBS streaming service, according to Deadline. The latest adaptation of The Stand has been in the works for quite a few years now, with The Fault in Our Stars and The New Mutants director Josh Boone developing the project with SEAL Team executive producer Ben Cavell. Young’s Frannie Goldsmith is described as “a pregnant young woman navigating a strange new world,” while Zaga’s Nick Andros is “a young deaf and mute man who finds himself in a position of authority when the unthinkable happens.” Heard will take on the role of Nadine Cross, an ally of recurring King nemesis Randall Flagg. In The Stand, Marsden plays everyman Stu Redman, a survivor of an apocalyptic event that pits the remaining men and women against each other in a battle of good versus evil. In a press release in August, CBS announced that the upcoming 10-episode miniseries will feature James Marsden ( Westworld) and Amber Heard ( Aquaman), as well as up-and-coming stars Odessa Young ( A Million Little Pieces) and Henry Zaga, who appeared in Netflix’s controversial 13 Reasons Why and the long-delayed The New Mutants.ĬBS also revealed that Stephen King wrote the final episode of The Stand, which will feature a new coda that didn’t appear in either the book or ABC’s award-winning 1994 miniseries.
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