Teaser released for new mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Last week, CBS All Access announced that the first episode of the new, nine-part mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic novel The Stand will be available to watch on the streaming service as of December 17th. Now they have released a quick teaser trailer online. The teaser is embedded above.

After the premiere, episodes of The Stand will be released on a weekly basis, arriving on CBS All Access every Thursday.

King's novel (which you can buy HERE) has the following synopsis: 

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail — and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

The mini-series stars Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Ellis, Eion Bailey as Teddy Weizak, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb, Fiona Dourif as the Rat Woman, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, and Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, with Natalie Martinez and Marilyn Manson in unspecified roles.

Josh Boone, Benjamin Cavell, Jill Killington, and King's son Owen King wrote the scripts for the episodes, with Stephen King himself writing a new ending for the story that will go beyond the events of the book and make up a substantial part of the final episode. Boone directed the first and last episodes.

The Stand was produced by CBS Television Studios. Boone and Cavell executive produced with Taylor Elmore, Will Weiske, Roy Lee, Jimmy Miller, and Richard P. Rubinstein. Will Weiske and Miri Yoon served as co-executive producers, and Jake Braver, Stephen Welke, Knate Lee, Jill Killington, and Owen King have producer credits. 

King's story previously received a mini-series adaptation in 1994 (and you can pick up a copy of that HERE). I have been a huge fan of The Stand ever since I watched that mini-series as it aired when I was just 10 years old, so I'm hyped to check out this new adaptation in just a few months.