Watch This Before The Stand Begins

Stephen King's epic is finally returning to the screen as a ten-episode miniseries from a visionary director and featuring an all-star cast — not to mention a new ending conceived by King himself. Here's everything we know.

The Stand is a massive, sprawling narrative that covers the length and breadth of America, taking readers from New York City to Maine and from Nebraska to Las Vegas. In the midst of all that, King creates a massive ensemble of good people, bad people, and those who lie in between.

The earliest casting news for the series revealed stars including James Marsden as Stu Redman, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Odessa Young as Fran Goldsmith, and Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, all four of them major players in the struggle that makes up the book's core. Later casting announcements throughout the fall of 2019 revealed that Nat Wolff joined the series as the villainous Lloyd Henreid, while Jovan Adepo will play rock star Larry Underwood, Brad William Henke will play Tom Cullen, and Greg Kinnear will play Glen Bateman. Two more key names, Marilyn Manson and The Flash star Ezra Miller, have also joined the series in still-mysterious roles.

Of course, arguably the most important casting decisions in the series arrived when the production had to select the major players on either side of King's good vs. evil struggle, the benevolent Mother Abigail and the sinister Randall Flagg. Ultimately, those roles went to the legendary Whoopi Goldberg and the always-compelling Alexander Skarsgård, respectively, setting the stage for a battle for the ages.

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