Stephen King’s The Mist is coming to television! Spike TV’s adaptation will diverge quite a bit from both the original novella and the 2007 film adaptation. As the show’s creator, Christian Torpe, told Entertainment Weekly, “I wanted to be respectful to the source material, but my feeling was there was already a great adaptation out there by Frank Darabont.” The new trailer shows off an expanded cast of characters, and even tosses out a few theories about the sinister Mist’s origin.
Check out the full trailer below!
The show will add new members to Stephen King’s cast of characters, and use the series format to expand on what was a tight 200-page-long novella—instead of all gathering into a single grocery store, disparate groups of survivors will huddle up in a church, a mall, and a few other locations, and various people try to exploit the Mist for their own gains. This will all create a series of pressure points as The Mist brings out people’s deepest flaws, as well as mining all of Stephen King’s usual commentary on class and gender issues. You can read more about the show over at EW!
I’m partially hoping that they finish in a season, then just start going through some of the other books in the same fashion. It’s similar to the hobbit movie, it was fun, but all the extra content seemed unnecessary and I hope they don’t pull out the plot with to many filler episodes.
Did I miss something, or were there no actual monsters eating people’s faces in that trailer?
Yeah, maybe they’re just keeping them off screen, but I’m real worried that the whole “the mist messes with your mind” thing is going to lead to them going with the idea that there are no monsters just people going crazy after being exposed to the Mist.
And I’m sorry, that’s not the Mist. If there are no alien extradimensional monsters, it’s not The Mist, just like it’s Daredevil if he’s not blind with super senses but instead is just a really good martial artist who fights crime in a mask, or it’s not and it’s not Doctor Who if it’s about a mysterious scientist who fights monsters but never travels in time and space. You’re erasing one of the key features that make it cool and replacing it with something that’s been done before in a supposed effort to keep from doing something that’s been done before.
Hopefully I’m wrong.
No situation that starts with somebody breathlessly saying “there’s something in the mist…” Has ever ended well.