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CBS All Access has finally revealed a premiere date for its upcoming limited series adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. The first episode will debut on the streaming service on Thursday, December 17. New episodes of The Stand will continue to air weekly every Thursday, with the series spanning nine episodes in total (including a brand new finale storyline written by King himself). [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-stephen-king-remake-so-far&captions=true"] CBS had been teasing a 2020 debut for a while now, though with no recent updates some fans might have been growing concerned the series would be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But according to showrunner/executive producer Benjamin Cavell, that only makes a 2020 release all the more important. “During the two years we spent making THE STAND, we all felt the responsibility of adapting what may be the most beloved work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, but none of us could have imagined that Stephen King’s 40-year-old masterpiece about a global pandemic would come to be so eerily relevant,” said Cavell in a press release. “We’re honored to tell this sprawling, epic story, including a new coda that Stephen King has wanted to add for decades. We’re so proud of this show and its attempt to find meaning and hope in the most uncertain of times. We can’t wait to share it with the world.” The Stand stars Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abigail and Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg. After a superflu nicknamed Captain Trips wipes out 98% of humanity, the survivors rally around either Abigail or Flagg as a titanic battle between good and evil looms. The series' cast also includes James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young 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, Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner, 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. New Mutants helmer Josh Boone serves as an executive producer and directed the series premiere and finale episodes, and Taylor Elmore is serving as showrunner alongside Cavell. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/25/doctor-sleep-director-is-working-with-stephen-king-on-further-adaptations"] Vanity Fair debuted the first batch of images from The Stand in May. "He's so charming and he's so handsome, and so powerful—I mean genuinely powerful, able to perform these sort of miracles where he could levitate himself and he has these actual powers," Elmore said of Skarsgård's character. "And yet he needs this adulation and this kind of worship from these people whom he's summoned to him." Back in April, Marsden revealed his pandemic binge list to IGN, and The Stand was one of his picks. For more Stephen King goodness, find out all the novels you need to read (including The Stand) to fully appreciate the Dark Tower saga. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
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