Dimension Films and director Frank Darabont have opted Stephen King’s novella “The Mist” and want to turn it into a big screen horror feature.
Darabont loves working King’s stuff from page to screen and has turned other King works into big hit features such as “The Green Mile” with Tom Hanks and “The Shawshank Redemption” starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
“It’s [The Mist] a project Stephen King and I have been talking about for almost 20 years now,” commented Darabont. “In fact, it almost was my first directing project many years ago, but I went classy and did ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ instead. It’s time to get down and dirty and make a nasty little character-driven gut-punch horror movie.”
Kings novella is the story of a small town in Maine that is suddenly enveloped in a thick, eerie unnatural foggy mist after a violent thunderstorm. The vaporous ground-fog conceals a variey of horrific creatures that stand guard at the edge of the mist on the ready to attack and devour anyone trying to escape the cluthes of “The Mist.”
The greatest mystery to the townfolk is the origin of the mist. Is it supernatural, interdimensional or the result of some kind of bizzare classified government experiment?
Finally! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for years.
I’ve been waiting forever for this one! My favorite King novella!