The Stand (2020 miniseries)

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: update to text needed. Some things long done are talked about in the future tense. Please help improve this article if you can. (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Stand
Television release poster
Genre	Post-apocalyptic Fantasy drama Horror Disaster
Based on	The Stand by Stephen King
Developed by	Josh Boone Benjamin Cavell
Starring	James Marsden Odessa Young Owen Teague Alexander Skarsgård Whoopi Goldberg Amber Heard Jovan Adepo Henry Zaga Nat Wolff Irene Bedard Brad William Henke Greg Kinnear
Music by	Nathaniel Walcott Mike Mogis
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Benjamin Cavell Taylor Elmore Josh Boone Will Weiske Jimmy Miller Roy Lee Richard P. Rubinstein
Producers	Stephen Welke Jill Killington Knate Lee Owen King
Production locations	British Columbia, Canada
Cinematography	Thomas Yatsko David Stockton Elie Smolkin
Editors	Robb Sullivan Matthew Rundell Marc Clark Rob Bonz Robert Berman
Running time	49–65 minutes
Production companies	Vertigo Entertainment Mosaic Media Group CBS Studios
Original release
Network	Paramount+ Starz [1]
Release	December 17, 2020 (2020-12-17) – February 11, 2021 (2021-02-11)
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)

The Stand is an American post-apocalyptic fantasy television miniseries comprising nine episodes, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King and a remake to the 1994 adaptation. The plot centers on a pandemic resulting from a mishap at a military biological research facility, which allows the escape of a lethal strain of influenza. After the pandemic kills almost the entire world population, the few survivors are drawn to one of two figures, Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail, setting up a final good-vs-evil confrontation. The adaptation alters details (gender, ethnicity, age, etc.) of some main characters, moves the setting to the modern-day 21st century, and features a new ending in the final episode co-written by Stephen King with his son, Owen King. The finale adds on the expanded ending of the 1990 version of the book^[2] making it the third variation of the story's conclusion. The first episode was released on Paramount+ on December 17, 2020, and on Starz on January 3, 2021.^[3] The series received mixed reviews.