USA: Author Stephen King talks about his novel "The Mist" being adapted for the big screen
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USA: Author Stephen King talks about his novel "The Mist" being adapted for the big screen
Author Stephen King discusses the film adaptation of his short story "The Mist," and says he's pleased with the new ending director Frank Darabont wrote into the screenplay. At a press conference in New York, author Stephen King said he's very pleased with the screen adaptation of his short story "The Mist," which will hit North American theaters on November 21. "The Mist," King told reporters, is a work he's always been "grateful" for "because it kind of broke me out of a place where I couldn't seem to do anything and this story just came very very naturally." Marking his third pursuit of a Stephen King story, director Frank Darabont adapted the author's 1980 short story "The Mist" for the big screen, including changing the ending of the script, which King readily approved of, joking at the conference "I said to myself this is so shocking that there ought to be ads in the newspaper that say 'If you reveal the last five minutes of this movie you'll be hung by the neck until dead." Set in a small town in Maine, a father and son (Thomas Jane of "The Punisher" and Nathan Gamble from "Babel") are trapped in a grocery store with other townsfolk when a strange and mysterious mist roles over the town, blanketing it in an aery, alien silence. David (Jane) soon realizes that things are lurking in the mist, deadly and horrifying creatures that are out to kill. David and the townsfolk must now ban together to survive, but the rising fear and tension divide the group, and fear no longer lies with what awaits the people outside of the store, but of the people inside, and what they are capable of when reason falls prey to fear. Darabont told reporters that he has been a long-time fan of the author's work, and believes that King "single-handedly" changed the world of horror literature. King in turn praised Darabont's work not only on "The Mist," but on their collaborations on two previous King works, "The Green Mile" and "The Shawshank Redemption," both for which Darabont was nominated for Oscars.
ITN Source | November 15, 2007
