David and Billy leave for town with their neighbor Brent Norton to buy supplies. While surveying the damage the next morning, they notice a thick mist advancing over the lake. In Bridgton, Maine, artist David Drayton, his wife Stephanie, and their eight-year-old son Billy take shelter in the basement of their lakeside home during a severe thunderstorm. While the film's cinematic release was in color, the director has described the black-and-white print (released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2008) as his " preferred version."
Darabont has since revealed that he had "always had it in mind to shoot The Mist in black and white", a decision inspired by such films as Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the "pre-color" work of Ray Harryhausen. The film was commercially released in the United States and Canada on Novemit performed well at the box office and received generally positive reviews. While they struggle to survive, an unnatural mist envelops the town and conceals vicious, Lovecraftian monsters as extreme tensions rise among the survivors.įilming for The Mist began in Shreveport, Louisiana, in February 2007. The plot revolves around members of the small town of Bridgton, Maine, who after a severe thunderstorm causes the power to go out the night before, meet in a supermarket to pick up supplies. Although a monster movie, the central theme explores what ordinary people are driven to do under extraordinary circumstances. Darabont also sought unique creature designs to differentiate them from his creatures in past films. The director revised the ending of the film to be darker than the novella's ending, a change to which King was amenable. The film features an ensemble cast, including Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Nathan Gamble, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, Frances Sternhagen, Buck Taylor, William Sadler, Sam Witwer, Alexa Davalos, Chris Owen, Andy Stahl, and future The Walking Dead stars Jeffrey DeMunn, Laurie Holden, Melissa McBride, and Juan Gabriel Pareja. Darabont had been interested in adapting "The Mist" for the big screen since the 1980s.
The film was written and directed by Frank Darabont. The Mist (also known as Stephen King's The Mist) is a 2007 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella " The Mist" by Stephen King.
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