Find Out Why “The Stand” Is the Most 2020 Show

A divided country, a grab for power, a worldwide pandemic… Despite being based on Stephen King’s novel that’s now over 40 years old, “The Stand” is operating in familiar territory. Amber Heard, James Marsden, Odessa Young, Greg Kinnear, Brad William Henke, Henry Zaga, Nat Wolff, Jovan Adepo, Katherine McNamara and the series executive producers sound off on the new CBS All Access adaptation of “The Stand.” The nine-part miniseries that premieres December 17, 2020, and airs weekly after that also stars Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abigail and Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, with Ezra Miller appearing as Trashcan Man. The novel was first published by King in 1978 as his take on an American version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” novels.The new miniseries is directed in part by ‘The New Mutants’ helmer Josh Boone. Stephen King also wrote a new coda for this version of his epic novel.