Marilyn Manson, the controversial schlock rocker, is to be the topic of a brand new documentary sequence.
British broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered three-part sequence Marilyn Manson: Behind The Masks (w/t) that’s co-financed by Fifth Season, the corporate previously referred to as Endeavor Content material, and comes from Spector producer Lightbox in partnership with Rolling Stone.
It comes after Manson, in any other case referred to as Brian Warner, obtained a litany of accusations lately. Evan Rachel Wooden accused the musician of sexual and bodily violence and was behind a two-part HBO documentary Phoenix Rising. Subsequently, Sport of Thrones star Esmé Bianco accused him of sexual assault and sexual battery and quite a few different girls filed civil lawsuits towards him.
He was dropped by CAA and his document label Loma Vista and axed from sequence comparable to Starz’s American Gods and Shudder’s Creepshow.
After these preliminary accusations, Rolling Stone journal, which Deadline father or mother firm PMC owns a controlling stake in, reported quite a few different allegations, resulting in a police raid and a prison investigation. There have been no prison expenses however civil instances are nonetheless pending.
Lengthy earlier than these accusations, Manson reveled in his place as one of the crucial controversial figures in music since G.G. Allin, breaking out with the band’s debut Portrait of an American Household, that includes songs comparable to Cake and Sodomy, earlier than turning into a star with Antichrist Celebrity and its hit The Lovely Folks.
The sequence will study the accusations his capacity to court docket controversy, whereas exploring how high-profile sexual assault allegations play out in at the moment’s put up #Metoo period.
It can function interviews with a number of of the accusers, followers, trade insiders, legal professionals, a former band mate (there’s been just a few) and his childhood finest pal.
It can chart his rise to fame from a troublesome childhood (he beforehand mentioned that he watched his grandfather masturbate to movies of bestiality) by means of to being vilified within the press for antics comparable to hanging a donkey pinata stuffed with cow brains and pig intestines over a crowd, and later turning into an advocate for these on the fringes of society. He was extensively praised for his feedback after the Columbine bloodbath, when requested by Michael Moore, what would he say to the youngsters who dedicated that act, he replied that wouldn’t “say a single phrase, I’d take heed to what they should say and that’s what nobody did”.
The sequence can even embody unique audio recordings of interviews with Rolling Stone alongside archive footage and never-before-seen pictures.
At the moment in manufacturing, Marilyn Manson: Behind The Masks is produced by Lightbox and Rolling Stone Movies for Channel 4 in affiliation with Fifth Season and Media Finance Capital.
Karen McGann, who directed CNN’s Reframed: Marilyn Monroe, will direct and Zoe Jewell is sequence producer. Exec producers embody Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Suzanne Lavery, Jason High quality and Gus Wenner. Fifth Season has international distribution rights and can launch at subsequent week’s Mipcom.
Suzanne Lavery, SVP Unscripted, Lightbox mentioned, “Marilyn Manson: Behind The Masks tells the definitive story of the controversy surrounding the star, charting his profession from its early days by means of to his being dropped by his supervisor, agent and document label on account of the allegations made towards him. In first-hand testimony, we hear intimate accounts from his accusers, in addition to those that robustly refute their allegations. The sequence asks well timed questions on how the music trade attracts the road between rock n roll extra and transgressive conduct and examines whether or not Manson’s constructed persona displays the fact of the human being behind the performer, and what the longer term holds for the liberty of expression and the correct to shock.”
“Rolling Stone broke the story about Marilyn Manson’s alleged abuse and this sequence takes a step again to discover these allegations within the wider context of Manson’s profession, his meteoric rise because the self-proclaimed Antichrist Celebrity and the controversy surrounding his latest fall from grace. We’re proud to accomplice with Lightbox to inform this fascinating and sophisticated story,” added Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner.
