The Stand is expected to premiere on CBS All Access in 2020. Bill also starred in Season 1 of the Stephen King-inspired anthology series Castle Rock. They join James Marsden, Amber Heard, Jovan Adepo, Odessa Young, and Henry Zaga in the primary cast.Īlexander becomes the second Skarsgard to play an iconic King villain his brother Bill stars as Pennywise the Clown in the IT movies. News of Skarsgard's casting comes shortly after it was announced that Mother Abagail, his counterpart among the forces of good, would be played by Whoopi Goldberg. He also starred in the AMC limited series The Little Drummer Girl and was most recently seen in the Showtime series On Becoming a God in Central Florida.Įverything We Know About Stephen King's New The Stand Series So Far

Skarsgard is something of a limited series king, with his breakthrough role coming in HBO's Generation Kill and his Emmy win garnered for Season 1 of Big Little Lies(which at the time was a miniseries).

In The Stand, he leads a colony of evil plague survivors in Las Vegas, in preparation of the final showdown between good and evil. He first appeared in The Stand and is the primary antagonist of the Dark Tower series. He is an ageless man of considerable supernatural ability whose goal is chaos and destruction.

Randall Flagg, aka The Walkin' Dude, aka The Man in Black, aka many other names, is one of Stephen King's most iconic villains. #CBSAllAccess /vbWpDL6RTc- CBS All Access September 13, 2019 #TheStand, based on the apocalyptic novel by has begun production.

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