I've waited 20 years for this damn movie.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834165/video/3906309/

PS: Here's hoping it is called DAS MIST in Germany for Bob Gutowski and his brother!

It's been a while since I've read the novella or listened to that excellent 80s audio drama adaptation, but it looks like Darabont really has nailed it wonderfully. I'm a bit generous involving the FX because of the crummy streaming image and the probability that the digital guys still have scheduled rendering time to do over the next two months. From what I can see, at least the CGI bugs move like convincing insects. Also, I believe Darabont has said that they will be using practical anamatronic puppets whenever CGI isn't the only solution.

***But I'd like to echo the warnings from the Halloween remake thread... THIS TRAILER IS PRETTY DARN SPOILERISH, in my personal opinion. The fate of a major character and major villainous threats from the third act are revealed.***

Looks damn scary and sells the story pretty well for those not usually attracted to monster or horror movies. I'm there.

My thoughts (because, obviously, something's just *missing* without them :rolleyes: ) here.

I do think they could have rolled out some better trailers to tease us. Like one ending with the character getting carted off and the rope. But who am I to talk?

"Here's hoping it is called DAS MIST in Germany for Bob Gutowski and his brother!"

I'm all... misty! Thanks for thinking of us, WW!

Looks great. It's been years since I read the story. Looking forward to see it now.

It does look great! It was the only good thing about watching HALLOWEEN!

Watched it at home this weekend! Looks intense and totally authentic - I only hope Marcia Gay Harden doesn't have to call herself "Mother Carmody," since they've cast her and not an older actress in the role. Andre Braugher looks like he's bringing the same authority to the role of the neighbor as he did to the remake of (yes, Bob's going to bring it up again) the remake of 'Salem's Lot, and everything else he does.

"Oh, dear god. As if this were one of the key works of the age, or something." ;)

Admit it, Bob, Jeffrey served you pretty hard right there. :D

It was SO brilliant I couldn't do anything but gasp!

Darabont's had good luck with King adaptations - so here's hoping.

But more often than not, King doesn't adapt well to movies...

BUT, as an adaptation from a novella, there's already less to compress or cut. Plus, the thing's pretty action-driven. Then, there's that Darabont's big stinker was the non-King would-be Capraesque Jim Carrey opus THE MAJESTIC, which he didn't write.

I think Darabont "gets" King in a way that few others in his position have, including Goldman.

You know I'm just needlin' ya, right Bob? :P

Totally, and well-done! :D

To think what Darabont could've done with THE BODY as opposed to Rob Reiner's godawful STAND BY ME, a film that has aged terribly...(unlike King's short piece, which still holds up nicely...)

I dug out my copy of Skeleton Crew last night, and I'm re-reading "The Mist."

Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if the character listed on the imdb as "Irene," played by the lovely Frances Sterhagen, is a composite of the best parts of the novel's characters Mrs.Reppler and Hattie, even though there's a character named Hattie in the film.

SPOILER!

I predict "Irene"will not only comfort Billy, the hero's child (which was Hattie's function in the story), but will also face down one of the "bugs" with two cans of insect spray, not to mention swing a mean tennis racket, too.

Has anyone seen the new TV spot featuring a curious shot of men in hazmat suits with flamethrowers. Definitely not an element in the original novella that has me scared Darabont has come up with an happy ending where the things are taken care of.

Typical spoiler type pix in the new FANGORIA, for your info...

...not what I've been hearing*...








*he says, treading lightly.

...not what I've been hearing*...








*he says, treading lightly.

The only thing that made me uneasy in the trailer was the (otherwise cute) miltary fellow with the sculpted eyebrows! They're so carefully shaped! Why do I not buy them? Is it the thought that he'd get ribbed unmercifully by his colleagues? Or even punched?

Anyway, in the second trailer he seems to be going into some detail about what was going on at the nuclear facility that's not spelled out in the novella, as I recall (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I can't see Darabont ending this any way other than the way King did.*








*Spoiler: In a way, like the end of the Dante TWILIGHT ZONE MOVIE episode.

Same here. They may have not gone with the ambiguity of the story ending, but certainly not in the direction of happiness.

I'll agree I'm dismayed by the little clip showing dialogue elaborating on the Arrowhead Project (which wasn't nuclear, to my memoryof the story, just a government base) but I think there may have been similar *speculation* in the story to the ends shown, so we may just being seeing that - speculation. That line that goes something like "you tried to open a portal but maybe you made a doorway!" is laughable, though.

Still, looking like fun.

So, according to FANGO, the ending is different from the novella, with King's blessing. And I may have added "nuclear" all on my own, it's true.

"You tried to open a portal but maybe you made a doorway... or a window? Some sort of an entrance or exit."

"How about a cat door?"

"No... too small. Maybe an garage door."

A third, internet exclusive trailer is now up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgA9bvcF7NY

The funny thing is that only now after all these years, I only just got the whole underlying supermarket joke... the consumers suddenly becoming the consumables.

I was going to put up something like "They arrive in San Francisco, and the Golden Gate Bridge is covered in bugs," but I finished re-reading the novella over the weekend - and guess what? The narrator, Dave Drayton, talks about how his father hated inconclusive, Hitchcockian endings!

FYI: The current issue of Creative Screenwriting has an interview with Darabont on writing The Mist.

Middling-to-good Variety review here. The reviewer criticizes "a highly calculated ending that departs from King's more ambiguous denouement to mostly shrug-worthy effect."

I haven't read the story or seen the movie but that religious fanatic woman in the trailer seems annoying.

Mrs. Carmody, "annoying?"

Well, that's one way to put it (hee, hee)!

It's giving nothing away to tell that Darabont has pulled a DePalma in the casting of this pivotal character. As DePalma cast Piper Laurie as Ruth White in the film Carrie, a vibrant, sensual, glorious-voiced monster instead of the white-haired terror of the novel, Darabont's choice of beautiful, intelligent and so-rational Marcia Gay Harden is a far cry from the elderly, yellow-toothed doom-sayer of the novella The Mist.

Which book is the story in?

Skeleton Crew

Though many of us first grabbed the collection DARK FORCES, in which it was initially published!

How did you know I was loooking for a new pic for my desktop wallpaper?

However, that ain't it.

Shame on you if you don't have THE MIST on your wallpaper this month!

I swear, I was about to put up Sweeney Todd, and I though, "Hell, THE MIST opens first." But then I got busy, so there's a picture of me and Brini Maxwell up, for now...

The New York Times had a big piece on Darabont and King yesterday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/movies/1...r=1&oref=slogin

As you might expectorate...expect, I mean, the cover story of the new Rue Morgue is THE MIST, and it's the NEXT Creative Screenwriting which will feature a cover story. The current issue on the stands (Sept. - Oct.) headlines that smash-hit blockbuster wonder of the age THE DARJEELING EXPRESS.

So, a really snarky review in The NY Times by snarky Manohla Dargis, a B+ from EW, and some Net raves. It seems the ending is very, very grim. I can't wait.