Oscar award nominated writer Frank Darabont is hard at work adapting “The Mist”, a Stephen King story. The good folks over at cinemablend.com give us this:
At last, Frank’s getting back to making his own movies. Variety says he’s adapting yet another Stephen King novella into a film script, and then directing it. The novel in question is The Mist, which Frank will make into a horror film.
Doing a horror movie is something of a departure from his previous movies. Darabont says, “It’s time to get down and dirty and make a nasty little character-driven gut-punch horror movie.” Apparently, The Mist is a project he and King have been kicking around together for years, but it got shelved in favor of what he calls “classier” work like Shawshank.
“The Mist” was published in 1985 as part of a collection of King short stories. In it, a thick fog or mist engulfs a small town and kills anyone caught up in it. Survivors take refuge in a supermarket, where they end up under siege by murderous beasties trying to get in.
Lets throw out the classy and get back to the trashy! Hey we all need movies like The Shawshank Redemption but once a while we need our junk food fix of films too.
Darabont is just as skilled at giving us the costume jewels as he is at showing real gems. On the gem side he wrote The Green Mile and has now been given the honor of being the writer for the new movie version of the amazing Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451.
As for some fun horrors he’s done we can look at The Fly II, The Blob and remember A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors? It was the movie that made me like the Freddy series again, Darabont penned that one just for the kids I bet. One of his first adapting and directing was for The Woman in the Room; part of Stephen King’s Night Shift Collection (how interesting that he’s getting back to horror directing and writing with another one of King’s creations).
This is exciting, I’m always up to see what a good writer can do with a creepy Stephen King story. How about everyone out there?
