OT: Stephen King story ever a movie?

[Hurst2112]

I loved "The Mist" and tend to read it once a year. Great horror story. While a bit sci-fi, it certainly tugs at you in a good way.

Has there ever been a movie done of this story? I remember the old movie "The Fog" with Hal Holbrook. That wasn't based on the movie from what I remember. The new one that came out last year was an adaptation of the 79 movie.

I doubt "The Mist" was ever touched. It would be cool to see if it was though.

[Karlifornia]

I loved "The Mist" ....

..it certainly tugs at you in a good way.


Well, the tug can be done easily, but "The Mist" requires some sort of mesh covering....



Ah, hell, I tried :D

[Hurst2112]

Well, the tug can be done easily, but "The Mist" requires some sort of mesh covering....



Ah, hell, I tried :D

wow! that made me spit my coffee. (and that isn't some insinuating reference). :D

[gkb]

I don't think there was ever a movie made from this short story. It's one of my favorite's as well. I wish he had made it into a full-length novel.

[cthomer5000]

I definitely agree it had/has some potential for a movie. I could have sworn i heard there was a movie being made about it at some point in the 90s, but obviously nothing ever came of that.

[cthomer5000]

dola. Just did a search and found a blog that makes it look like perhaps Frank Darabout (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) is working on it.

http://www.liljas-library.com/mist.html

[Hurst2112]

dola. Just did a search and found a blog that makes it look like perhaps Frank Darabout (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) is working on it.

http://www.liljas-library.com/mist.html

wow! good find! thanks.

[JeeberD]

Very cool! I've always enjoyed the story but apparently it had been licensed out to film for about 20 years now and nothing ever came of it. I'm very glad to see that's now changed...

[Hurst2112]

hopefully they don't make more of the brief affair between what's his nuts and what's her name.

hehe

[JeeberD]

Mmmm...they need a sexy redhead for that role. Wonder who they're going to get?

[cthomer5000]

Mmmm...they need a sexy redhead for that role. Wonder who they're going to get?how old was she? I read that story a long time ago.

If she's older I'd toss out Julianne Moore, if younger lets go with Alicia Witt.

[JeeberD]

I'm thinking she was late twenties/early thirties. Re-read the story a few months back but don't remember that exact detail, though...

[bbor]

Mmmm...they need a sexy redhead for that role. Wonder who they're going to get?

Laura Prepon would be delicious.....specially if the movie required nude scenes:D

[rkmsuf]

hooters, hooters, hooters.

[Rasmuth]

Alicia Witt is a great choice...

I wish they'd make a movie version of "Eyes of the Dragon"....

[Hurst2112]

Alicia Witt is a great choice...

I wish they'd make a movie version of "Eyes of the Dragon"....

OMG!!!! I just fell backward in time to 7th grade...

my mom was leary about me reading that. that was the time when rumors of kids playing D&D were going around neighborhoods killing animals, acting out their quests. I had to tell her that because it said the words Dungeon and dragon in the summary, it wasn't affiliated with that stuff.

It was a very, very good book. I would probably read it again for nostalgia sake.

[Hurst2112]

Dola:

good book meaning that it was very entertaining back then. I hadn't yet read Tolkien so...i might have been jaded.

[Swaggs]

Which release was this one in? I don't believe I've read it before.

Off topic, but has anyone gotten their hands on King's new novel? The reviews make it sound like it is vintage King.

[Rasmuth]

Eyes of the Dragon was a separate book...Steven King wanted to write a story he was comfortable for his 10 or 11 year old daughter reading...so he wrote it....

its a wonderful story of good versus evil...

[Swaggs]

I mean "the Mist."

I've read (and really enjoyed) "Eyes of the Dragon."

[Rasmuth]

oh.

[Hurst2112]

I mean "the Mist."

I've read (and really enjoyed) "Eyes of the Dragon."

It was in "Night Shift" or "Skeleton Crew". Can remember which one. I think Skeleton Crew.

[JeeberD]

Yup, Skeleton Crew.

I always loved Eyes of the Dragon. I don't know how many times I've read it, but it's been a bunch. Of course, I've read most of King's novels a bunch of times.

Haven't picked up Cell yet, it may have to wait until the summer when I have more free time to read...

[Swaggs]

I had Skeleton Crew on my bookshelf and read "the Mist" last night (finished at 3:30 AM). :)

Good stuff. I really love survival/catastrophe type stories like it.

[Swaggs]

Bump. This seemed like an appropriate thread for some good news for King lovers. :)

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Nightmares & Dreamscapes Debuts July 12
Source: TNT May 10, 2006


Turner Network Television (TNT) is putting the summer on ice with its chilling all-star television event Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. This four-week collection of eight mind-bending tales from the master of horror, set to premiere Wednesday, July 12, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), features an all-star cast of Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winners and nominees. The first installment of the series will be presented uninterrupted and commercial-free.

Five of the adaptations for "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" come from Kings 1993 anthology of the same name. "The Road Virus Heads North" and "Autopsy Room Four" come from Kings 2002 anthology "Everything's Eventual," while "Battleground" comes from 1978's "Nightshift."

"Nightmares & Dreamscapes" comes to TNT from Bill Habers Ostar Enterprises, with Haber (The Uprising, Jack and the Bean Stalk: The True Story, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) serving as executive producer. The series producers include Mike Robe, Jeffrey Hayes and John McMahon.

The "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" line-up:

Umneys Last Case

Starring Emmy winner and Oscar nominee William H. Macy (Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood).

Teleplay by April Smith (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, Elektra).

After the death of his son, writer Sam Landry (Macy) is so desperate to lead another life, he writes himself into his own book, forcing his long-time character (also played by Macy) to change places with him and live in the modern day. But things get deadly when Landry realizes Umney is trapped and cannot write himself out of his new reality. Jacqueline McKenzie co-stars as Landrys distraught wife.

The End of the Whole Mess

Starring Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall).

Teleplay by Lawrence D. Cohen (Carrie, Stephen Kings It); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Mikael Salomon (TNTs Salem's Lot).

The world had changed. Violence, war and hatred have been replaced with kindness, peace and love. But at what price? Renowned filmmaker Howie Fornoy (Livingston), with just one hour to live, recounts the details of his brothers (Thomas) worldwide experiment gone terribly wrong.

Crouch End

Starring Golden Satellite nominee Eion Bailey (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, Band of Brothers) and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black, Ripley Under Ground).

Teleplay by Kim LeMasters (Threshold); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Mark Haber (Border Patrol, Alien Cargo, Daisies in December).

A newlywed American couple (Bailey and Forlani) honeymooning in London goes to Crouch End to have dinner with a friend. They soon learn the town is not what it appears to be, and the more they get lost, the more they become trapped in another dimension.

The Fifth Quarter

Starring Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar) and Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot)

Teleplay by Alan Sharp (Rob Roy, Reversible Errors); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, Elektra).

Willie (Sisto), a just-released convict, learns from his dying friend of a map in four parts that reveals the location of several million dollars from a robbery. Seeking revenge for the death of his friend and the money, as well, Willie hunts down the others who hold the remaining three parts to the map, risking his family and his freedom.

Autopsy Room Four

Starring Emmy winner Richard Thomas (The Waltons) and Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Greta Scacchi (Flightplan, Rasputin).

Teleplay by April Smith (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Mikael Salomon (TNT's Salem's Lot).

Businessman Howard Cottrell (Thomas) is on vacation playing one of his many games of golf. Chasing the ball into the undergrowth, he is bitten by a snake and completely paralyzed, showing no signs of life. At the hospital, unable to communicate, he is the key witness to his own autopsy.

You Know They Got a Hell of a Band

Starring Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings).

Teleplay by Mike Robe (News at Eleven, Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Mike Robe.

A wrong turn on a lonely road turns frightening for Clark and Mary Willingham (Weber and Delaney) as they stumble upon a town not on any map Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon. There is a free concert every night, but the price of admission is high once the audience enters, it can never leave.

Battleground

Starring Oscar winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village).

Teleplay by Richard Christian Matheson (Mobius, It Waits); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Brian Henson (Farscape, Muppet Treasure Island).

Jason Renshaw (Hurt), a professional hit man, successfully murders the CEO of a prestigious toy company only to face the biggest fight of his life when a package from the toy company is delivered to his house with surprising, deadly contents.

The Road Virus Heads North

Starring Oscar nominee Tom Berenger (Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier).

Teleplay by Peter Filardi (Salem's Lot, Flatliners); based on the Short Story by Stephen King; directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (TNT's Into The West, Invasion, Taken).

Richard Kinnell (Berenger) is a famous writer who, at a doctor's visit, learns he may soon have to deal with his own mortality. On the drive back to his home, he buys a mysterious painting. Each time he looks at it, it changes to become more menacing and sinister. He pieces together that the painting is trying to kill him but not if he can destroy it first.

[SackAttack]

Eyes of the Dragon was a separate book...Steven King wanted to write a story he was comfortable for his 10 or 11 year old daughter reading...so he wrote it....

its a wonderful story of good versus evil...

he still tied it in with the Dark Tower saga, though.

[Rizon]

Great story. The SC was a great book too.

[Groundhog]

You know, that perfect little village that they stumble accross in the movie Big Fish always reminded me of something out of "They've Got One Hell of a Band".

[JeeberD]

The Road Virus Heads North is a hell of a story. Hopefully I'll be able to catch these, but I'm afraid that I'll be working...

[Cuckoo]

Turner Network Television (TNT) is putting the summer on ice with its chilling all-star television event Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. This four-week collection of eight mind-bending tales from the master of horror, set to premiere Wednesday, July 12, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), features an all-star cast of Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winners and nominees. The first installment of the series will be presented uninterrupted and commercial-free.

Just remembered this starts tomorrow night - thought I'd bump for the other King fans that forgot as well.

[SackAttack]

He was griping about some project based on his works going up against the American Idol finals on his website a while back.

That rant was hilarious to read.

[Grammaticus]

how old was she? I read that story a long time ago.

If she's older I'd toss out Julianne Moore, if younger lets go with Alicia Witt.
They will just change her hair color to brunette like they did with the lead role in the Da Vinci code. That chick was supposed to be a red head too.

[Swaggs]

Bump again...

The first two episodes of Nightmares & Dreamscapes aire tonight on TNT, beginning at 9:00 PM EST.

[cthomer5000]

Apparently The Mist is still happening. Some words from Frank Darabount himself on it:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30440

[mrsimperless]

That article doesn't exactly get my hopes up for the movie. It'll still be a definite must see though and I'll hope for the best.

[JeeberD]

Author and Stephen King fan Bev Vincent managed to visit the set of The Mist. Looks like it's going strong!

http://bev-vincent.livejournal.com/97897.html

[JeeberD]

And a trailer is out...

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

[Swaggs]

Can't wait for this.

[Travis]

Very sweet.

[KWhit]

Oh yes.

[cthomer5000]

Looks destined to disappoint... *sigh*

[Malificent]

Looks destined to disappoint... *sigh*

Frank Darabont has only done the 2 best Stephen King movie adaptations of all time and one of those also happens to be one of the best movies of all time period. Why would this be destined to disappoint?

[cthomer5000]

Frank Darabont has only done the 2 best Stephen King movie adaptations of all time and one of those also happens to be one of the best movies of all time period. Why would this be destined to disappoint?

The trailer looks pretty weak to me, personally. That's why I say that.

[cthomer5000]

Has anyone else seen it? Exactly what I expected based on the trailer... a b-level movie.

Marcia Gay Harden was especially over the top in this one.

[Kodos]

Looks like I "Mist" this one!

[cthomer5000]

Looks like I "Mist" this one!

I guess i'm not the only one with no shame. I called it a "Mist" Opportunity on my podcast yesterday. :D

[SteveMax58]

Bump for those interested.

I just saw The Mist tonight...I have not read the book, so make of that what you will, but I had no preconcieved notions when I sat down to watch it.

I liked it...but it had about 3-4 blatantly amateurish moments, and debatably 3 or more in addition. If you can look past (what I consider to be) typical over the top King characters (at least in the movie versions), then you might enjoy it. If you have no idea what the storyline is about, I would suggest keeping it that way (dont even read the back of the DVD) if you are willing to live dangerously.

Nothing top notch about it...but very entertaining...in a "I am Legend" or "28 weeks later" sorta way. My tolerance for poor acting is a bit high, so YMMV.

[Drake]

I just saw this. I can't even be coherent about it right now, so I blogged my thoughts:

http://wincingatlight.com/2008/04/01/interlude-things-that-piss-me-off/

Warning: spoilers abound!

[JetsIn06]

I just saw this. I can't even be coherent about it right now, so I blogged my thoughts:

http://wincingatlight.com/2008/04/01/interlude-things-that-piss-me-off/

Warning: spoilers abound!

I honestly could not have agreed with you more. Spot on.

[SteveMax58]

Yeah...good writeup Drake. I did not read the original book, but I have to say I thought the "big scene"(trying not to spoil it for others) was completely tacky and unecessary.

[korme]

I left the movie theatres from gone baby gone many months ago and got stopped by a rep who was like "would you like to see an advanced trailer of a movie if you answer some questions". with nothing else on the agenda i said hell yea.

turns out i got to see the mist trailer. anyone who knows me could tell you this is worst-case scenario for me. i basically trashed the whole thing and said it looked terrible and all that nonsense. i mean i could have gotten some sweet drama or atleast an easy comedy, but i get a dumbass sci-fi movie. i hate dumbass sci-fi movies.

[Drake]

I can't help but think of that clip from The Family Guy where Stewie walks out of the movie, flies to Hollywood and punches whoever the actor was in the mouth. My reaction was that visceral.