The new CBS All-Access miniseries will see Stu played by James Marsden, and his journey on the show will begin with him being rounded up by government officials and transported to a Center For Disease Control facility where it’s discovered that he is one of an extremely limited number of people immune to the world-ending illness.
Spreading the disease to his family and all he met along his journey, this man made it all the way from southern California to east Texas, which is where he crashes into a gas station where Stu and his friends are hanging out.
While all of the characters in The Stand have their own horror stories when it comes to the deadly virus known as Captain Trips (among many other names), the brave and tough Stuart Redman’s first interaction was quite significant, as he actually meets Patient Zero: a security guard from a Department of Defense laboratory that escaped when testing on the weaponized contagion went wrong.