The Mist | Mike Flanagan to write and direct new film adaptation
A new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist is on the way, with Mike Flanagan set to write and direct. Filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s seeming mission to adapt everything Stephen King has ever written continues. Having already made Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and The Life Of Chuck, all based on King stories, Flanagan is said to ... The Mist | Mike Flanagan to write and direct new film adaptation
A new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist is on the way, with Mike Flanagan set to write and direct.
Filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s seeming mission to adapt everything Stephen King has ever written continues. Having already made Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and The Life Of Chuck, all based on King stories, Flanagan is said to be about to write and direct a new take on The Mist.
Originally written in the 1970s, The Mist was most famously adapted by writer-director Frank Darabont in 2007. Largely taking place in a supermarket as supernatural forces descend on a small town in Maine, it features a committed lead performance from Thomas Jane and one of the most bracing conclusions in horror history. If you’ve seen the movie, you probably haven’t forgotten it.
Sadly, The Mist wound up as Darabont’s last feature film; he’s largely busied himself with TV work since, including a couple of episodes of Stranger Things.
There was also a TV series based on the same material released in 2017, though it’s perhaps the movie, made on a lean $15m-ish budget, that is most widely remembered. Himself a serial adapter of King stories, (The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile came before it), Darabont boldly diverged from the original novella.
All of which makes us wonder what fresh angle Flanagan can bring to The Mist's lean premise. His earlier King adaptations benefited from not having been adapted before; a new take on The Mist will inevitably compared with Darabont’s effort. We’ll have to wait and see on that front. (A hat-tip to Deadline for reporting on the project, in the works at Warner Bros.)
Flanagan also has lots of other projects on the boil. He’s currently deep in a rebootening of The Exorcist, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (among others) and due out in 2027. He also has an eight-part adaptation of Carrie on the go, and a TV series based on the voluminous saga, The Dark Tower. Those are, of course, both works by Stephen King.
More as it comes in.
