Stephen King's The Stand CBS All Access Series Gets First Teaser

The next highly-anticipated original program coming to the CBS All Access streaming service is The Stand, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. During MTV's Video Music Awards, a new teaser was released for the show.

The nine-episode limited series arrives December 17 to the ViacomCBS streaming service. The new 30-second teaser gives us a better look at the upcoming show. Check it out below.

The limited series takes place in a future where a plague has wiped out most of the population, and there is a struggle between the forces of good and evil. "The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) and a handful of survivors," reads the official description. "Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), the Dark Man. THE STAND will close with a new coda written by the famed author himself."

Aside from Goldberg and Skarsgård, the show has a very large cast with many very familiar names. Check out everyone appearing on the show below.

The Stand's cast:

• Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail
• Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg
• James Marsden as Stu Redman
• Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith
• Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood
• Amber Heard as Nadine Cross
• Owen Teague as Harold Lauder
• Henry Zaga as Nick Andros
• Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen
• Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner
• Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid
• Eion Bailey as Weizak
• Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor
• Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry
• Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman
• Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens
• Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis
• Daniel Sunjata as Cobb
• Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman

This isn't the first time King's novel has been attempted to be turned into a TV show. In 1994, ABC turned the show into a four-part miniseries starring Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Jamey Sheridan, and lightly featured former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

One big change coming to the CBS All Access version is the ending. According to CBS All Access, "The Stand will l feature a brand new coda written by Stephen King himself." And while the book kicks off before the plague turns the world into a post-apocalyptic hellscape, the limited series will pick up in the aftermath, focusing immediately on the survivors who are immune to the Captain Trips virus, according to Vanity Fair.