Fangoria got a chance to catch up with Frank Darabont, the man responsible for such Stephen King adaptations as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption to talk about his next project, the feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist.
The Mist was part of King’s short story collection “Skeleton Crew” and was also offered as a 3-D audio book that cnoncerns a group of strangers trapped inside a supermarket by a bevy of giant monsters that arrive in an unworldly fog. The audio book is certainly one of the best I have heard and the short story itself, is certainly one of the longer ones King has written with much more detail and story to tell.
“The Mist is a very scary and memorable story,” Darabont told Fangoria, “one of Steve’s best ‘muscular’ short pieces, with characters in the kind of pressure-cooker environment that nobody writes as well as King. I intend to be faithful to the material, so I think the movie will be good.”
The article goes on to say that Darabont will be taking a Night of the Living Dead approach to the film along with a look back at more underground horrors of the past, as opposed to the overblown recent fear fare from the major film companies (i.e. Van Helsing). “Whether it’s a studio picture or not, I want to go with a very gritty, low-budget indie approach,” he says. “Big-budget gloss would work against the material, plus I’m excited about trying my hand at a more seat-of-the-pants filmmaking approach on this one than I’ve used in the past.”
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