Filming is underway on CBS All Access and director Josh Boone‘s new small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand,” and the latest actor to join the cast is Greg Kinnear.

Deadline reports that Kinnear will play novel character Glen Bateman.

“A widowed professor when the superflu hits, Glen Bateman was accustomed to a solitary life. When he encounters other survivors, his curiosity is piqued by Mother Abagail’s visions.”

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, Heather Graham, 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