Filming has just begun on season three of WGN America’s Salem in Shreveport, LA, and the network announced Marilyn Manson will be part of the cast of the new season in a special guest starring role. Manson’s been involved in the series from the beginning, collaborating on the show’s title track, “Cupid Carries a Gun,” with composer Tyler Bates. This season he’ll step in front of the camera to play Thomas Dinley, a “barber and surgeon who is the go-to man in Salem, from a shave and a haircut to being leeched, bled, sliced open or sewn up.”
Salem is written by the show’s creators Brannon Braga and Adam Simon. The cast includes Janet Montgomery as Mary Sibley, Shane West as Captain John Alden, Seth Gabel as Cotton Mather, Ashley Madekwe as Tituba, Tamzin Merchant as Anne Hale, Elise Eberle as Mercy Lewis, Iddo Goldberg as Isaac Walton, Joe Doyle as Baron Sebastian Marburg, and Oliver Bell as Mary’s son.
The Salem Season Three Plot:
Continuing its bloody, sexy and fantastical reimagining of Colonial America, Salem‘s third season dawns with the triumph of the witches’ plan to remake the New World by bringing the devil to earth and making Salem his capital. But the devil is a liar, and instead of a New World free from murderous Puritan hypocrisy, his own plan will bring nothing but death and slavery with the ultimate aim of leading humanity to destroy itself. And there’s only one person on earth who can beat the devil — the very witch that birthed him, his mother, Mary Sibley. The only problem is – she’s dead. Or is she?
