Casting continues on CBS All Access and director Josh Boone‘s new small screen adaptation of “The Stand,” with Deadline reporting today that Heather Graham has signed on.
“Graham will play Rita Blakemoor, a wealthy woman who is ill prepared for the end of the world and attempts to escape superflu-infested New York City.”
The cast also includes Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Brad William Henke, Nat Wolff, Daniel Sunjata, James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Eion Bailey, Katherine McNamara, Hamish Linklater and Henry Zaga.
The series will bring to life King’s 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