Just days after the news that Heather Graham has joined the cast, we now have word from Deadline that Oscar-nominated actor Greg Kinnear has become the latest addition to CBS All Access and director Josh Boone’s (The Fault in Our Stars) series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand.
Kinnear is set to portray the character or Glen Bateman, a widowed professor accustomed to a solitary life, who finds himself drawn towards Mother Abagail and travels with Stu Redman and company to the Boulder Free Zone.
Also featuring in the cast of the series are James Marsden (Westworld) as Stu Redman, Amber Heard (Aquaman) as Nadine Cross, Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) as Frannie Goldsmith, and Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Nick Andros, Jovan Adepo (Overlord) as Larry Underwood, Owen Teague (Black Mirror) as Harold Lauder, Brad William Henke (Orange Is the New Black) as Tom Cullen, Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me) as Cobb, Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act) as Mother Abagail, Nat Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars) as Lloyd Henreid, Katherine McNamara (Arrow) as Julie Lawry, Eion Bailey (ER) as Teddy Weizak, Hamish Linklater (Legion) as Dr. Ellis and Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) as Randall Flagg.
Based on King’s 1978 post apocalyptic epic, The Stand takes place in a world decimated by a biologically created superflu, and follows two groups of survivors – one drawn towards the 108-year old Mother Abagail, the personification of good, and the other towards the Dark Man, Randall Flag, the personification of evil.
Originally published October 19, 2019. Updated October 18, 2019.
