Stephen King’s The Stand.
Whoopi Goldberg wore Mother Abagail’s white locks from Stephen King’s The Stand on The View today.
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Mother Abagail is a 108-year-old prophet who sees visions from God and the Good in the story.
Whoopi Goldberg will be filming The Stand in Vancouver for the next four months.
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Alexander Skarsgard is Randall Flagg aka the Devil and the Evil in the story. He establishes a community in Las Vegas.
Filming dates: September 16th to March 11th, 2020
Working Title: Radio Nowhere.
In a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, he fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
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Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Henry Zaga, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Brad William Henke and Daniel Sunjata.
James Marsden will play Stu Redman, a Texan with an immunity to the superflu. Taken in by government authorities he ends up in New England where he escapes and meets up with Glen Bateman, Frannie Goldsmith and Harold Lauder.
Odessa Young is pregnant Frannie Goldsmith who leaves Ogunquit, Maine with Harold Lauder and meet Stu Redman on the road and they eventually travel west together to Mother Abagail. During the journey, Redman and Young become a couple.
Amber Heard is Nadine Cross, a conflicted woman but one compelled by her allegiance to Randall Flagg.
Owen Teague is Harold Lauder, who goes in search of survivors with Frannie Goldsmith after the superflu hits Ogunquit.
Greg Kinnear is Glen Bateman, a former professor who dreams of Mother Abagail and joins Redman and the others on their journey to Boulder.
Jovan Adepo is Larry Underwood, a musician who is one of the few survivors in New York City. After a long journey and meeting other survivors along the way, he ends up in Boulder.
Henry Zaga is young deaf and mute Nick Andros who finds himself in a position of authority.
Brad William Henke will play developmentally disabled Tom Cullen,
Nat Wolff is Lloyd Henreid, a killer trapped in prison and freed by Randall Flagg to be his right-hand man.
Katherine McNamara is Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild side who is one of Lloyd Henreid’s conquests in Las Vegas.
Daniel Sunjata is Cobb, a member of the military who is assigned to supervise Stu Redman as the government searches for a cure to the superflu breakout.
Hamish Linklater is Dr. Ellis, a military colonel and infections-disease specialist.
Heather Graham is Rita Blakemoor, one of the few survivors in New York City who leaves with Larry Underwood.
Eion Bailey is Teddy Weizak, a superflu survivor and member of the body crew, in Boulder.
Writers/Producers: Josh Boone – Ben Cavell.
Directer: Josh Boone.
I read The Stand under my bed when I was 12, and my Baptist parents burned it in our fireplace upon discovery. Incensed, I stole my Dad’s FedEx account number and mailed King a letter professing my love for his work. Several weeks later, I came home to find a box had arrived from Maine, and inside were several books, each inscribed with a beautiful note from god himself, who encouraged me in my writing and thanked me for being a fan. My parents, genuinely moved by King’s kindness and generosity, lifted the ban on his books that very day. I wrote King a cameo as himself in my first film and have been working to bring The Stand to the screen for five years. I’ve found incredible partners in CBS All Access and Ben Cavell. Together with Stephen King, Owen King, my longtime producing partners Knate Lee and Jill Killington, we plan to bring you the ultimate version of King’s masterwork. — Josh Boone.
Related: Stephen King to Write Last Episode of New Adaption of His Thriller The Stand.
Stephen King is writing the last episode of the new 10-episode adaption, with a new coda not found in his novel.
I’ve had an idea for the ending for The Stand for a long time. I was never really totally happy with the way it ended because the main characters, Stu and Fran, never talked about what happened to them after they left Boulder, Colorado., where the thing ends. And I always wondered about their trip back, and I had an idea. Josh came to me and said, ‘Would you be interested in writing a button episode for this thing?’ And I said, ‘Well, since you got Whoopi, you can get me.’” — Stephen King.
Sources: The View, BC Production List, Deadline, Production Weekly.