Stephen King's "The Mist" to be adapted to film

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I'm reading through Empire Magazine, and I've just found out that 'The Mist' (not to be mixed up with The Fog) is to be adpated to the big screen.

Even better, it will be directed by Frank Darabont. For those people not in the know, Frank was the director for both Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile. He also directed The Majestic, which I haven't seen before.

Empire said:
The Mist centres around a group of desperate individuals trapped in a supermarket when a mysterious mist envelopes their small English town. No biggie you may think- but the mist houses a swathe of nightmarish creatures, including two-foot-long deadly bugs and ginat spiders with skulls for faces.
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So with that said, I'll think about buying the book and read up on it.

ETA: Out in October

Trivia:
Half-life's original design codenamed was Quiver, in reference to Stephen King's 'The Mist'
 
Yay - this was a fun story and will adapt itself well to a movie if they stick to the original Stephen King text, and it sounds like the director won't embellish it with too much "Hollywood" padding.
 
Small English town? Originally it was set in Maine, or are they just using it to say a town of anglo-saxon descent? Anywho, can't wait, The Mist was one of my favourite Stephen King short stories.
 
mortiz said:
Small English town? Originally it was set in Maine, or are they just using it to say a town of anglo-saxon descent? Anywho, can't wait, The Mist was one of my favourite Stephen King short stories.
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My bad, it was supposed to read New England :sleep:
 
Longer plot:
The morning after a violent thunderstorm, a thick unnatural mist rapidly spreads across the small town of Bridgton, Maine, reducing visibility to near-zero and concealing numerous species of bizarre creatures; vaguely resembling, among other things, lobsters, spiders and giant squid, these entities viciously attack any human who ventures out into the open. The source of the fog and its inhabitents is never revealed, but strong allusions are made to an interdimensional rift caused by something known second-hand to the townsfolk as "The Arrowhead Project", which had been long-rumored to be conducted at a nearby top-secret military facility.

The bulk of the story details the plight of a large group of people who become trapped while shopping in the town supermarket, among them an artist named David Drayton (the story's narrator), Drayton's young son Billy, and their annoying neighbor Brenton Norton. (Also trapped in the market are two soldiers from The Arrowhead Project; their joint suicide lends some credence to the theory of the Project being the source of the disaster.) Along with the horrifying physical threat outside, of which Norton is an early victim, the story also explores the rapid psychological breakdown of the terrified people inside the market. This breakdown allows for the rise to power of a religious zealot named Mrs. Carmody, who eventually convinces a majority faction of the survivors that these events fulfill the biblical prophecy of the end times, and that a human sacrifice must be made to clear away the Mist: Billy is the chosen victim. As the mob surges forward at her command, Mrs. Carmody is shot by Ollie Weeks, an employee of the market and one of the few survivors who has remained relatively sane. Drayton, his son, and two other survivors escape to Drayton's car and head south, learning that the Mist has spread ahead of them across all of Maine. As the story ends, they prepare to drive on into an uncertain future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist
 
Sh*t, I went to my local bookstore and they sold everykind of Stephen King novel, except The Mist
 
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