With a little over two months to the premiere of The Stand miniseries, fans were treated to a full-length trailer at the end of the virtual panel at NYCC.
The ten-part mini-series is based on the extremely popular, and very long, Stephen King opus The Stand, published in 1978 and made into a four-part miniseries in 1994 on ABC.
The book begins with the release of a biological weapon (when have biological weapons ever been a good thing?) from a government lab and follows its destructive path across the world. With most of humanity wiped out, two distinct sides form in what’s left of the US: a group of what is basically good people who gather in Boulder, Colorado around a mystical old woman named Mother Abagail (played in this version by Whoopi Goldberg) and a collection of the bad in Las Vegas, gathered around an evil clad in human form known as Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård).
Josh Boone (New Mutants) has directed the first and last episode (the last episode featuring a new ending written by Stephen King and his son Owen), with the rest of the directors yet to be announced. Writers on the show include Boone, his frequent collaborator Knate Lee, Cavell, and others, with the Kings, Boone, and original The Stand producer Richard P. Rubenstein also on the list of executive producers.
The Stand hits CBS All Access on Dec 17th.
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