Alexander Skarsgård Is Joining Stephen King's The Stand, and Somewhere Pennywise Is Shaking

Whoopi Goldberg will play Mother Abagail Freemantle, a 108-year-old woman from Hemingford Home, NE, who claims to be a prophet of God in the original novel. She is the youngest child of freed slaves and one member of the 0.6 percent of the population that is immune to the Captain Trips virus. She appears to "good" plague survivors in dreams, drawing them to her so she can lead them to safety.