CBS All Entry is bringing a Stephen King favourite to TV screens simply in time for Christmas.
The Stand has landed a Thursday, December 17 premiere date on the streamer.
The nine-episode restricted will then air weekly every Thursday.
The Stand is Stephen King’s apocalyptic imaginative and prescient of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental wrestle between good and evil.
The destiny of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mom Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors.
Their worst nightmares are embodied in a person with a deadly smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Darkish Man.
“In the course of the two years we spent making THE STAND, all of us felt the duty of adapting what will be the most beloved work of one of many world’s most beloved storytellers, however none of us might have imagined that Stephen King’s 40-year-old masterpiece a few international pandemic would come to be so eerily related,” mentioned Benjamin Cavell, showrunner and government producer.
“We’re honored to inform this sprawling, epic story, together with a brand new coda that Stephen King has needed so as to add for many years. We’re so happy with this present and its try to search out that means and hope in essentially the most unsure of instances. We won’t wait to share it with the world.”
Along with Goldberg and Skarsgård, the sequence incorporates a stellar ensemble forged, together with James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Younger as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen,and Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner.
The forged additionally contains Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Weizak, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman, Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb, and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman.
The sequence is produced by CBS Tv Studios. Benjamin Cavell serves as showrunner and government producer alongside Taylor Elmore, Will Weiske, Jimmy Miller, Roy Lee and Richard P. Rubinstein.
Josh Boone serves as director and an government producer for the sequence premiere and ultimate episode. Jake Braver, Jill Killington, Owen King, Knate Lee, and Stephen Welke function producers.
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