Henry Zaga (The New Mutants) will play Nick Andros, a young, deaf-mute grifter who wears an eye patch for most of King’s book.
Boone, who has been developing the project for years, will also direct the series for CBS Television Studios.
Oscar winner Goldberg has completed negotiations to play Mother Abagail, who is immune to the superflu and leads the ‘good’ survivors of the plague toward Boulder, Colorado.
He eventually becomes a leader in a community known as the Free Zone and is tasked with confronting the evil Randall Flagg.