Good morning, Persephoneers! Have we got a day in store for you. Lots of words are coming your way, for those of you who are still snowed or iced in or those of you that are peeking from work. To get the blood flowing, I thought we might do something a little different for today’s Daily Goodie.
Our friends at Pajiba announced yesterday that there is a plan in the works to remake Stephen King’s The Stand
True confession time: I secretly love it. The Stand
The Pajibites seem to love the book version of The Stand as much as I (and a good number of people my age) do, and so they were all over the imaginary recast. Persephoneers, we can do better than the Pajibites. They did come up with a few inspired suggestions, including Cillian Murphy or Matt Ross as Randall Flagg, Paul Dano as Harold and Crispin Glover as Trashcan Man.
Here’s my (incomplete) list, what does yours look like, readers?
Randall Flagg: Mick Jagger
Stu: Timothy Olyphant
Franny: Mindy Kaling
Nick Andros: Zachary Quinto
Tom Cullen: Jason Segal
The Floozy who Shoots at them: Emma Stone
Nadine: Milla Kunis
Trashcan Man: Christopher Eccleston
Larry Underwood: Justin Timberlake or John Mayer.
Mother Abigail: Della Reese
The Kid: The kid from Cougar Town
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Thank you for this! I absolutely loved this mini-series, being a huge Stephen King fan I surprisingly was not bothered at all by the interpretation – a truly great cast on the whole and really freaking creepy in some respects. I have no shame!
Will gladly watch this proposed remake although to be honest, I cannot think of ANYONE better to play Tom Cullen than Bill Fagerbakke – for me he WAS his manifestation on film.
Larry Underwood = Josh Holloway
He’s proven, with Sawyer, that he can play “has he changed, or hasn’t he?”. It’s been a few years since I’ve read the book (stupid grad school, I used to re-read it every year) but Larry struggles with his transformation from selfish addict to responsible person.
He was mentioned a few times on Pajiba, and I can totally see it. I do like the idea of an actual musician playing Larry, though. I’d watch just for Halloway, though. I’d watch Halloway do Beckett.
He was in a music video, is that close enough? We don’t know that he can’t sing. I agree, though, I would watch his narrate a welcome video at the BMV.