![]() ![]() He read and signed off on all the other scripts, and his son, Owen, was one of the writers. King didn’t write the new screenplay, although he did write a new ending that differs from both his novel and the first miniseries. And there are an enormous number of characters - the cast includes James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, Heather Graham, Hamish Linklater, Daniel Sunjata and Greg Kinnear. You’ve got to pay attention because the story is often nonlinear - episodes are filled with flashbacks that fill in the characters’ backstories. “The Stand” is not something you can watch casually. ![]() (It will roll out one per week, with new episodes streaming on Thursdays beginning this week.) The CBS All Access version is nine episodes, each running about an hour. King wrote the teleplay for the original miniseries, which was considerably shorter - a bit over six hours actual running time. (Photo courtesy of Robert Falconer/CBS) Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail in “The Stand.” ![]()
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