The last outposts of humanity are established in Boulder, Colorado (led by Whoopi Goldberg’s Mother Abigail) and Las Vegas, Nevada (led by Alexander Skarsgard’s Randall Flagg), and the large ensemble of characters make their way across the country to determine the future of life on Earth.
When only a few thousand souls are left alive in America, they all begin to experience prophetic dreams, some coming from the light, and some coming from the dark.
While we fully expect that some details will be changed from the book to the show, The Stand is a story that begins with the end of the world – the apocalypse caused by a deadly flu virus commonly known as Captain Trips that breaks out of containment at a California army base and winds up infecting almost the whole world.