August
30
Trailer Watch: The Mist

This is it, the Holy Grail of Stephen King adaptations. Don’t ask me why (I haven’t read it), but the fans love The Mist. I figure it must have more to do with the monsters than the inclement weather, which might sound scary on the page, but pretty much just obscures everything on screen. Yahoo has the trailer.
Actually, from what I’ve heard, it’s the humans that are supposed to be frightening here. In the novella, a mysterious mist descends on the town, forcing a group of anxious yokels to take refuge in a supermarket, where they must cope with one another’s company in a pressure-cooker situation. Marcia Gay Harden is the religious zealot (you can even see her beating her Bible in the trailer), Thomas Jane plays Joe-Hero and Andre Braugher is dead meat.
Another reason the fans are so worked up is that Frank Darabont is directing. He helmed The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, two of the only classy King adaptations to date (personally, I’m partial to Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me).
One thing I recall from The Mist’s Comic-Con presentation last month was the fact that Darabont brought along the camera guys from The Shield (d.p. Ronn Schmidt and camera operator Bill Gierhart), which means the movie will have a completely different look from Darabont’s earlier pics. Expect more handheld, docu-style coverage, which, if it works as planned, should make audiences feel like they’re trapped right alongside the characters. I can't wait to see how this experiment plays out.
—Posted by Peter Debruge



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