Stephen King's seminal novel The Stand is once again getting the small screen adaptation treatment — this time with a nine-episode series coming to CBS All Access.
King's 1978 book is one of his most popular (and currently, most relevant) titles and centers on a group of survivors who have managed to make it through a catastrophic plague, the Captain Trips virus, that cost the other 99 percent of the world their lives.
But those survivors must still contend with the supernatural villain Randall Flagg, aka the Dark Man. CBS All Access announced a straight-to-series order for The Stand in January 2019, which marks the first time the story has been adapted since ABC's four-episode miniseries in 1994.
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