
The Stand's showrunner, Benjamin Cavell ( Justified, SEAL Team), said in a press release that "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. Other writers on the project include former Dread Central host Jill Killington, Knate Lee (New Mutants), Eric Dickenson (SEAL Team, Masters of Sex), and Owen King (co-author of the 2017 novel Sleeping Beauties with his father Stephen). Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) is attached as director, as well as co-writer of the first episode. This new version of The Stand has been in development since March of 2018 at CBS All Access, which picked it up to make a TV show after a 2014 film project stalled out.


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