THE STAND: Marilyn Manson Isn’t in New Miniseries, Confirms Director
Mike Sprague
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Ezra Miller (The Flash) is our new Trashcan Man in CBS All Access’s and Stephen King’s The Stand. Marilyn Manson looks to be out of the loop. And today, director Josh Boone (The New Mutants) confirms Manson will not be in the new miniseries.
Boone tells EW: “Marilyn Manson and I had long-discussed him taking on the role of The Kid in The Stand. He and the great Shooter Jennings even recorded a killer cover of The Doors song, ‘The End,’ that ultimately proved too expensive to use.
He adds: The show was made on a very tight budget and some of the dreams we had went to the wayside. The Kid was another casualty. When Manson wasn’t able to make it work schedule-wise, the storyline was ultimately excised and never shot, which is for the best, as no one could have slayed that role like Manson...”
Showrunner Benjamin Cavell said: “We thought we were going to be able to restore the character of The Kid, but there really isn’t a lot of reason for The Kid to exist.”
For a little bit of history on The Kid. The character comes to us from King’s extended version of The Stand and wasn’t in Mick Garris’s 1994 miniseries.
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The Stand is an apocalyptic vision of the struggle between good and evil of a world decimated by plague. The fate of mankind rests on the shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied by a nefarious man with unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg.
This version stars James Marsden as Stu Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, and Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith. Henry Zaga joins them as Nick Andros and Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail. Jovan Adepo plays Larry Underwood, with Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen. Nat Wolff is Lloyd Henreid, with Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, and Daniel Sunjata as Cobb. Eion Bailey plays Teddy Weizak, with Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, and Luca Batista as Young Nick. Alexander Skarsgård is Randall Flagg.
The Stand hits CBS All Access on December 17, 2020.
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