The series has been green lit to be streamed by CBS All Access and will release one episode very Thursday starting from 17th December 2020. This nine-episode adaptation will have a star-studded cast including Whoopi Goldberg who plays Mother Abagail and Alexander Skarsgård who portrays the dark man, the villainous Randall Flagg. The series will also star James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke, Irene Bedard, Nat Wolff, Eion Bailey, Heather Graham, Katherine McNamara, Fiona Dourif, Natalie Martinez, Hamish Linklater, Daniel Sunjata and Greg Kinnear in prominent roles.
The book is about a post apocalyptic world, where most of the human population has died due to the leak of a particular contagious strain of influenza from a US Department of Defence laboratory. The spread of virus is depicted in the book and the rest of the plot follows a group of people who are trying to re-build society from the ground up, despite the chaos around them.
ABC had previously launched a 4 part limited series of the book in 1994, starring Gary Sinise, Jamey Sheridan, Molly Ringwald and Ruby Dee, with moderate success.
The Stand is set to premier on CBS All Access on 17th December 2020.