{"id":176026,"date":"2021-02-11T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-stand-boss-on-the-different-versions-of-randall-flagg-stephen-kings-ending-more\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:10:55","slug":"the-stand-boss-on-the-different-versions-of-randall-flagg-stephen-kings-ending-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-stand-boss-on-the-different-versions-of-randall-flagg-stephen-kings-ending-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#’The Stand’ Boss on the Different Versions of Randall Flagg, Stephen King’s Ending & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’The Stand’ Boss on the Different Versions of Randall Flagg, Stephen King’s Ending & More<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the finale of The Stand<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe Circle Closes.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen King<\/a> gives his Stand<\/em> the ending he\u2019s wanted for decades with the CBS All Access miniseries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The author wrote the finale that allows Frannie (Odessa Young<\/a>), who couldn\u2019t trek to Las Vegas with the others since she was eight months pregnant, to make her stand against Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>) and reject his attempt to lure her in. But he\u2019s not completely gone, with the series ending the same way as King\u2019s expanded version of the novel: Flagg, calling himself Russell Faraday, finds a new group of followers.<\/p>\n

Unless King wants to continue this story, that is the end of The Stand<\/em> series, executive producer Benjamin Cavell tells TV Insider, nor will fans see any more footage because they made the decision not to release deleted scenes on the Blu-ray. \u201cWe made the show in the most compelling way we thought we could,\u201d he explains. \u201cSome of those scenes that people are really attached to from the book, I\u2019m not sure they\u2019re going to play the same way onscreen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, Cavell takes us inside The Stand<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some people will surely wonder about a Season 2, possibly as an anthology, with Randall Flagg at the center.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benjamin Cavell:<\/strong> Totally. As you know, King has been inspired by that character many times over the years. I never say never. We made a real decision in telling this story to not have the viewers\u2019 enjoyment depend on their knowing anything about Flagg from the larger King universe but we wanted to at least allow for the possibility that that universe and those other versions of Flagg could exist. It\u2019s so much a part of who that character is and what he means for the readers.<\/p>\n

It looked like Alexander was having so much fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He loved it. He ate it up \u2014 the finale and also in Episode 8, where he danced in front of the crowd, which was completely his instinct. He pitched it to us. I don\u2019t even think he said dance. He said, \u201cFlagg starts to move to the music,\u201d and he chose the song. It was so much fun to watch. He\u2019s just brilliant in the part.<\/p>\n

\"Alexander<\/p>\n

(Robert Falconer\/CBS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Is that girl in the finale Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg<\/a>) or do they both represent the same entity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very clearly Mother Abagail and Flagg are two sides of a coin, mirror characters in some way. She bears the same kind of resemblance or relation to Mother Abagail that Russell Faraday bears to Randall Flagg. I\u2019ve always loved the last scene of the extended edition, which is where we end the series, of Flagg on the beach. Yes, it\u2019s Flagg in some way, except he really doesn\u2019t exactly know that, what he\u2019s doing here, or how he got here. He\u2019s reborn with a similar level of power and ambition but he\u2019s really starting from scratch in some way and remembering who he is and what he does. The girl is a Mother Abagail version of that.<\/p>\n

Was there anything King wanted done or not done to set up the finale?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. When he decided he did indeed want to write the coda, our response was, \u201cWhat do you need from us to make that happ<\/a>en?\u201d He said, \u201cI just need to know where you\u2019re ending the story of the book.\u201d We had always said we want Stu [James Marsden<\/a>] reunited with Fran and thought we would end the entire series with that last scene, from the expanded edition of Flagg presenting himself to a new group of people and then levitating. We wanted the suggestion, as is in the book, that there is no final defeat of evil. That\u2019s not King\u2019s style. The wheel keeps turning. It\u2019s a constant struggle against the forces like Flagg that would exploit our worst and most base instincts and desires. You defeat it for the moment and know it\u2019s going to raise its head again.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

(Robert Falconer\/CBS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Did having a Frannie-Flagg scene in the finale affect plans for previous characters\u2019 interactions with him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[King] had been thinking about [writing the coda because] he felt Frannie never got her stand. It felt like something he needed to fix, that maybe his most beloved character in the entire story and one of the protagonists doesn\u2019t get to participate in the climactic action.<\/p>\n

We had the episode before we started shooting anything in the entire series, so if we had found that the interaction he wrote for Flagg and Frannie was somehow too close or it stepped on anything, we would\u2019ve been able to change it. But once we saw how different it felt, in a wonderful way, from the interactions we had with Flagg, there wasn\u2019t any disagreement between the way Flagg and Frannie interact and the way he has with others or any redundancy. We loved the notion of Flagg lying against the tree, almost relaxed, almost relieved to be free of the responsibility of having to actually run a place and have all these followers he\u2019s concerned about and keeping in line. When we meet him in the finale, he\u2019s so at ease. We liked seeing that different color on Flagg we had never really seen in the series before.<\/p>\n

\"Greg<\/p>\n

(Robert Falconer\/CBS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What are you proud you were able to bring to the screen? <\/strong><\/p>\n

In terms of our crafting of the structure and our repurposing things in the book, I\u2019m very proud of a lot of what we did in Episode 8 to make the climax feel as though it\u2019s at least allowed by or even touched off by the actions of our characters. We were able to directly link the adulation Flagg gets from his followers to his power. The moment in court when Glen [Greg Kinnear<\/a>] gets killed in front of everybody, we constructed from a couple different scenes in the book, in which Glen is killed in private, just facing off with Flagg with Lloyd [Nat Wolff] in the room. Isn\u2019t the thing Flagg is really worried about being made to look weak or foolish in front of his people? We see him in the wake of Glen\u2019s death unexpectedly float down to the floor when he\u2019s been levitating.<\/p>\n

The Stand<\/em>, Streaming Now, CBS All Access<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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