Stephen King’s The Mist Trailer
What came first, The Mist or The Fog? Strangely, both Stephen King’s short story and John Carpenter’s film were originally released in 1980, although it remains to be seen if one was inspired by the other. Of course, by now, The Fog has already had its second incarnation on the big screen (and believe me, it wasn’t pretty), meanwhile director Frank Darabont is just now finally bringing The Mist to theatres for the first time. The story revolves around a small town in Maine where, in the aftermath of a violent storm, a thick mist envelopes the town and strange prehistoric creatures emerge to attack the townspeople. The main focus is a group of people who are trapped in a supermarket and their subsequent psychological breakdown.
I was a fan of what Darabont did with The Green Mile, which to this day is still one of my all-time favourite Stephen King flicks. That said, the trailer for The Mist didn’t really do much for me. Something about the primarily no-name cast (I only recognized Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden) and the questionable creature effects knocked it down a notch in my eyes. I do like stories about people trapped somewhere though (Dawn of the Dead anyone?) and that aspect seems somewhat interesting. Has anyone out there read the story? Does this look like it will live up to it? The Mist hits theatres on November 21st; check out the trailer over at Yahoo! now.
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Comments (6)
you didn’t recognize Andre Braugher (sp?) from the tv show ‘Homicide’ and many other movies? Maybe it’s good that there aren’t any really big names or noticeable teen faves (Like the dude from Smallville, his name escapes me). Maybe that gives the movie a chance to be good because with many of Kings stories it becomes a character study that happens to have monsters in it
Posted by Tanya on August 31st, 2007Actually he did look familiar but I’ve definitely never watched Homicide. You’re right, I shouldn’t be biased against a movie just because it doesn’t have a lot of big stars, and in most cases I wouldn’t be. I guess I just expected it to feel like a bigger production than it really was.
Posted by Sean on August 31st, 2007I had to watch this with the sound off, but it does look like the short story and that being said, I really liked the short story. The biggest problem I had with it, however is that King does his usual “the only people that are really religious are insane fanatics” thing that he loves to do in a few of his stories.
Posted by Paul on August 31st, 2007Looks pretty good. I’ll probably see it. While in my opinion Stephen King has had many more hits than misses, he occasionally inspires a really great movie.
Posted by Rian on August 31st, 2007The Mist is my all-time fav King story and i have been looking forward for this for a long time. i cant wait to see it. im glad that there isnt a large amount of big names in it.
Posted by Chopper on September 2nd, 2007This is my all time fave King tale…basically a character study, the monster stuff is thrown in for good measure. Altho I hear they’ve ‘changed the ending’ (a MISTAKE as far as Im concerned) Im still anxious to see this…for those of you that are also excited, be sure to snag your ‘Mist’ screensaver I created from my site (www.karcreat.com under ‘Custom Savers’)…its free!
Posted by Kevin Karstens on September 2nd, 2007K
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