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Darabont still wants to do The Mist

BluGilliandBluGilliand
edited September 2004 in General news
Frank Darabont confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he plans to write and direct a film version of Stephen King's horror tale The Mist, which appeared as a short novel in King's Skeleton Crew collection. Darabont previously scored successes with The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, both of which were based on King stories. "I love the fact that The Mist is a pressure cooker that's character-driven and that's a down-and-dirty monster movie," Darabont said in an interview while promoting the upcoming 10th anniversary special-edition DVD of The Shawshank Redemption. "I just love it."



Darabont added, "It's that wonderful Steve King taste in the mouth. I'm excited about getting back to my horror roots. I'm also excited about getting in there and shooting something down-and-dirty. I envision the monster barely glimpsed, just like in the story. These are things that you don't quite ever fully see. So I'm going to take a cue from everybody's godfather, Mr. Spielberg, and show the shark as little as possible," he added, referring to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.



The writer/director added that he'll start work on the Mist script "next week," but wasn't sure when it would get made, as he's already attached to direct a Fahrenheit 451 remake and may also take on Mine, a thriller to be based on a Robert McCammon novel in which both the hero and the villain are female. "That one may go first," Darabont said. "It's all in the hands of the film gods."

Comments

  • BluGilliandBluGilliand
    I love Darabont's work, and to have him working on a McCammon book AND "Fahrenheit 451" AND "The Mist" is very, very exciting news.



    Blu
  • Rache4173Rache4173
    I love "The Mist"... it's one of my all-time favorites of his stories. ;D ;D This would be a wonderful match.
  • DTUKDTUK
    The Mist is indeed an excellent novella :)



    Would love to see this as a movie :)
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Indeed and this approach:
    I envision the monster barely glimpsed, just like in the story. These are things that you don't quite ever fully see. So I'm going to take a cue from everybody's godfather, Mr. Spielberg, and show the shark as little as possible," he added, referring to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
    would rock!



    Bring it on!
  • newinsidenewinside
    This could be good.



    Of course, there have been many things that could have been good and were not.



    Guess we will just have to wait and see.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Saw a brief interview with Darabont tonight where he describes writing the next Mission Impossible over Tom Cruise's garage. Said it was the best writing spot he ever had. :)
  • CRinVACRinVA
    That's a pretty odd place for him to be ins't it?



    Does that mean when he works on Farenheit 451 that he will room with Ray Bradbury and that when he gets to The Mist that he takes up residence in Bangor! ;D
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Well, Ray Bradbury moved to Ireland for a year to live with John Houston when he did the script for Moby Dick, so maybe!
  • sunny99sunny99
    Moby Thingy ;D



    Moby the White Thingy ;D ;D
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    ;D ;D ;D
  • DTUKDTUK
    sunny99 wrote: Moby Thingy  ;D



    Moby the White Thingy  ;D  ;D


    lol ;D
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