History Trivia / TheStand

!!The 1994 miniseries:
* DawsonCasting: Trashcan Man's age is never specified, but Flagg refers to him as a "boy" and he is generally discussed as befitting a very young man or even a teenager. In the miniseries, he's played by Creator/MattFrewer, who was in his mid-thirties at the time.

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!!The miniseries
* AllStarCast: The cast includes Creator/GarySinise, Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/RobLowe, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/LauraSanGiacomo, Creator/JameySheridan, Creator/BillFagerbakke, Creator/MiguelFerrer, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Corin Nemec, Creator/MattFrewer, Adam Storke and Ray Walston. There are also notable cameos by Creator/KathyBates, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, and [[CreatorCameo Stephen King himself]] as one of the Free Zone members.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Joe Bob Briggs was very enthusiastic about his cameo because he wanted to meet Creator/GarySinise, as his father Robert L. Sinise had edited ''Film/BloodFeast'', one of the drive-in guru's favorite films.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
** Closing the Lincoln Tunnel in New York for filming would have been insane, so instead they used the Armstrong Tunnels in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}.
** The majority of it was shot in and around Salt Lake City.
* CastTheRunnerUp:
** Creator/MiguelFerrer originally wanted to play the role of Randall Flagg, but Creator/StephenKing wanted someone that the audience wasn't overly familiar with. After Ferrer heard that his friend Jamey Sheridan had been offered the part, but wasn't sure it was something he wanted to do, Ferrer convinced him to take it.
** Creator/RobLowe had been originally considered for the role of Larry Underwood, but Mick Garris felt that having him in the more unusual role of the deaf and mute Nick Andros would better suit the production (Lowe has been deaf in his right ear since childhood).
* CreatorChosenCasting: When Creator/StephenKing learned that Creator/KathyBates wanted to a part in the series, he changed the book's character Ray Brown to Rae Brown so he could have her in it becuase he loved her in ''Film/{{Misery}}'' so much.
* TheDanza: Joe Bob Briggs (best known for hosting ''[=MonsterVision=]'' on TNT in the '90s) is Deputy Joe Bob Brentwood, but this is likely an inversion of the trope, as the character had that name in the original novel, and so Briggs was probably cast in the part ''because'' of his name.
* DeletedScene: A still exists of at least one deleted scene showing Joe Bob Brentwood in his squad car after he gets sick.
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Creator/RobLowe plays the deaf-mute character Nick Andros. In real life, he is deaf in his right ear.
* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: For years it was planned to make the story into a theatrical film, directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero. Creator/StephenKing did many drafts to make it of a suitable length for a feature film, and when he couldn't get it short enough they considered breaking it into two separate films before finally letting Rospo Pallenberg write a draft. But before they could make it, King was offered the chance to make this mini-series for television.
* StarMakingRole: Prior to his appearance in the miniseries, Creator/GarySinise's career mostly consisted of guest appearances in various tv shows. His casting in ''Film/ForrestGump'', ''Film/Apollo13'', ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', etc. all came after.
* UnderageCasting: Ruby Dee was only 71 when playing the 106-year-old Mother Abagail. She wasn't even the oldest person on-set; her husband Ossie Davis, who played the much younger Judge Farris, was five years older. Granted, finding a suitable actress who ''was'' anywhere near 106 and not retired was probably a tall order.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/DavidBowie, Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/LanceHenriksen, Creator/ChristopherWalken and Creator/JamesWoods were considered for Randall Flagg.
** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey was offered the role of Stu Redman (He later took the role of Flagg himself for ''Film/TheDarkTower'').
** Creator/WhoopiGoldberg was approached by the casting team for Mother Abagail, but couldn't take the role as she was working on ''Film/SisterAct2BackInTheHabit''. She did play the role in the remake.

* UnderageCasting: Ruby Dee was only 71 when playing the 106-year-old Mother Abagail. She wasn't even the oldest person on-set; her husband Ossie Davis, who played the much younger Judge Farris, was five years older. Granted, finding a suitable actress who ''was'' anywhere near 108 and not retired was probably a tall order.

** Creator/MatthewMcConaughey was offered the role of Stu Redman.

** In one of Creator/StephenKing's intro essays for the Uncut Edition, he also suggested Creator/RobertDuvall for Flagg and Music/BruceSpringsteen for Larry Underwood.

* AllStarCast: The cast includes Creator/GarySinise, Creator/MollyRingwald, Creator/RobLowe, Creator/EdHarris, Laura San Giacomo, Creator/JameySheridan, Creator/BillFagerbakke, Creator/MiguelFerrer, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Corin Nemec, Creator/MattFrewer, Adam Storke and Ray Walston. There are also notable cameos by Creator/KathyBates, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, and [[CreatorCameo Stephen King himself]] as one of the Free Zone members.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book itself was one before King re-released it with some updated material. [[TechnologyMarchesOn It has since become one again.]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The clothing, cars, and hairstyles set the mini-series firmly in 1994. Even some of the cast were known for their late 1980s/early 1990s popularity, but have since been much less active in their careers.

** Creator/MiguelFerreroriginally wanted to play the role of Randall Flagg, but Creator/StephenKing wanted someone that the audience wasn't overly familiar with. After Ferrer heard that his friend Jamey Sheridan had been offered the part, but wasn't sure it was something he wanted to do, Ferrer convinced him to take it.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some of the proposed actors for Flagg included Creator/ChristopherWalken, (HilariousInHindsight when you realize that not only was Music/BlueOysterCult's [[Series/SaturdayNightLive "Don't Fear The Reaper"]] the intro to the show, but was also the original inspiration for the original book), Creator/JamesWoods, Creator/WillemDafoe, and Creator/JeffGoldblum. In one of King's intro essays for the Uncut Edition, he also suggested Creator/RobertDuvall for Flagg and Music/BruceSpringsteen for Larry Underwood.