This combination photo shows actor James Marsden at a screening of "Westworld" during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 19, 2018, left, and actress Amber Heard at the Planned Parenthood of New York City spring gala benefit in New York on May 1, 2019. Marsden and Heard will star in the CBS All Access limited series "The Stand," based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel. (Photos by Brent N. Clarke, left, and Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) --
James Marsden and Amber Heard will star in "The Stand," a limited series based on the Stephen King novel.
CBS All Access said Thursday that King will write the final chapter of the drama, a coda not in his book about a plague-devastated world.
Marsden will play Stu, a factory worker facing an extraordinary situation. Heard's character is Nadine, who follows an evil being with supernatural powers.
Odessa Young and Henry Zaga also will be part of the cast, the streaming service said.
"The Stand" was adapted for a 1994 miniseries, which was written by King and included Gary Sinise and Ruby Dee in the cast.
The premiere date and other stars of CBS All Access' "The Stand" have yet to be announced.
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A visitor takes a picture of a portrait of actress Emma Stone at an exhibition of images by Oscar nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos at Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece, on Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos paused his filmmaking and promotion schedule this week to celebrate a quieter creative pursuit: photography.
The 52-year-old Greek director on Friday inaugurated an exhibition of his photographs in his hometown of Athens, presenting images he has taken over the past five years — many captured while making his films, wandering through movie sets and nearby neighborhoods, or on trips back to Greece.
The exhibition gathers 182 still photographs, in color and in black and white, from the filmmaker known for his distinctive — and often disturbing — cinematic style. It opens days before Lanthimos returns to Hollywood for the March 15 Academy Awards ceremony. In his latest film, "Bugonia," a pair of conspiracy‑obsessed men kidnap a powerful female executive they accuse of being an alien.
The movie received four Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actress for Emma Stone, along with nods for adapted screenplay and original score. The photos, all shot with a film camera, features several portraits of Stone, a frequent star in his films.
Lanthimos on Friday said he was happy to dive into something different. Photography, he said, began for him as a technical foundation for filmmaking but gradually became something more personal.
"In film school you learn that cinema is basically 24 photographs per second," he said. "So photography is where it all begins."
Over time, working with still images opened a creative outlet separate from the complex machinery of movie production, he added.
"You can be alone with a camera, walking without having something specific in mind," Lanthimos said. "A photograph can have value on its own, but many photographs together can create... Read More
