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The Mist
Another Stephen King novel has been put into the
adaptation mill thanks most in part to director Frank Darabont.
Frank Darabont to Direct The Mist for Dimension
According to Variety,
after floating around The Mist for years, Frank Darabont
is now ready to direct an adaptation from his own script. Darabont had a
first-look deal with Paramount, the same people he is working to recover
his script from.
Published in 1985 as part of King's short story collection "Skeleton
Crew," The Mist takes place in a small town where
a thick mist engulfs the area, killing those caught in its darkness. Terrified
survivors seek refuge in a supermarket, while a swarm of murderous critters
tries to get in.
King has been hoping that Darabont would direct the adaptation for some
time.
"It's a project Stephen King and I have been
talking about doing for almost 20 years now," Darabont said. "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."
Darabont has directed films such as The Shawshank Redemption
and The Green Mile.
The Mist represents the third King project currently under
Weinstein. Dimension has recently wrapped 1408, with Eli
Roth currently working on an adaptation for King's latest release, Cell.
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