It’s been a long gestation period for Josh Boone’s (The New Mutants) adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand, but it’s finally happening. The book will be adapted as a 10-episode limited series at CBS All Access, the network’s subscription service.

Boone, who is set to direct the series, will also executive produce and pen the script with Ben Cavell (Homeland). And they’re both working with King’s enthusiastic approval.

“I’m excited and so very pleased that The Standis going to have a new life on this exciting new platform,” King said in a statement. “The people involved are men and women who know exactly what they’re doing; the scripts are dynamite. The result bids to be something memorable and thrilling. I believe it will take viewers away to a world they hope will never happen.”

A series is quite the change from what Boone originally intended for his King passion project (Boone is a big fan of the writer’s work): an extremely faithful four-part movie franchise that would explore the 823-page tome in full. But now thanks to the magic of television, The Stand will finally exist in the serialized version it so richly deserves.