CS Interview: Showrunner/Co-Creator Benjamin Cavell on The Stand
CS Interview: Showrunner/co-creator Benjamin Cavell on The Stand
Ahead of the series’ debut on the streaming platform, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with showrunner, co-creator and executive producer Benjamin Cavell (
SEAL Team) to discuss his work adapting Stephen King’s
The Stand into the miniseries, which premiered on CBS All Access today!
ComingSoon.net:
The Stand is one of the most iconic works of Stephen King, while also one of the most notorious in bringing to life on screen, how did your joining the project come about?
Benjamin Cavell: So about almost three years ago now, Julie McNamara, who runs CBS All Access, approached me. I had made a pilot that that she was the executive on several years ago and I had known her over the years as somebody who’s incredibly smart, and whose taste I really, really loved. So she approached me about doing this as a, as a limited series and I ju
The Stand Cast Talk Captain Trips Origin, How Survivors Find Strength
The Stand Cast Talk Captain Trips Origin, How Survivors Find Strength
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Stephen King s novel
The Stand was officially unleashed across streaming screens around the world as of today, and viewers have another preview to help get them up-to-speed before The End begins. In the opener, our survivors begin to find their ways down one of two different paths- one to Mother Abagail (
Whoopi Goldberg) in Boulder, Colorado, and the other to Randall Flagg (
Alexander Skarsgard) in New Vegas. But with the fate of humanity at a crossroads, each of them will be called upon to take a stand.
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âThe Standâ (CBS All Access)
A deadly virus, a devastating pandemic and a divided America. Rings a bell? No, we re not talking about the COVID-19 pandemic but the latest Stephen King adaptation. Presenting the mystical and apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the nine-episodic limited series is all set to enthrall fans of the dark fantasy novel first published in 1978 by Doubleday.
In the televised version, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man.
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Now unfolding on CBS All Access, the latest TV adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling 1978 novel,
The Stand, tells the epic saga of good versus evil among survivors after a viral plague decimates the world’s population. At either end of what executive producer Ben Cavell calls “the forces of light and dark” are 108-year-old
Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and the sinister
Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), who have drawn a sprawling, eclectic group of followers played by the likes of
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CBSâs âThe Standâ is Stephen Kingâs apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The 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.
Flagg has appeared in at least nine of Kingâs novels. Described as an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark, he has supernatural abilities involving necromancy, prophecy, and influence over animals and humans. Flagg first appeared in King s 1978 novel âThe Standâ as a demonic figure who wreaks havoc after a plague kills most of the population. The last few years have seen several adaptations of Stephen King on television. This one too promises to be great as well. So, letâs take a look at the star cast: