New Stephen King’s The Mist Movie Underway, Horror Veteran Mike Flanagan to Write and Direct

Horror manager Mike Flanagan is erstwhile again linking up with iconic writer Stephen King for a caller movie adaptation of The Mist, reports Deadline.

Based connected King’s 1980 sci fi fearfulness novella, archetypal published successful a Viking Press fearfulness anthology successful 1980, The Mist is the communicative of a radical of survivors stuck successful small-town Maine by a heavy fog that’s enveloped the full area, which conceals deadly creatures. The Mist was nominated for a fig of literate awards astatine the clip and is typically considered amongst King’s astir well-regarded works. Flanagan is connected platform to direct, and volition constitute the screenplay.

The Mist was antecedently adapted into a movie backmost successful 2007, starring Thomas Jane and directed by Frank Darabont, who had antecedently directed 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption and 1999’s The Green Mile (which were besides based connected Stephen King stories). It was besides adapted into a short-lived, 10-episode TV bid successful 2017, though it was cancelled the aforesaid twelvemonth it aired.

This caller adaptation volition articulation a lengthy database of existing King collaborations for Flanagan, including 2017’s Gerald’s Game, 2019’s Doctor Sleep (the sequel to The Shining), and 2024’s The Life of Chuck. Flanagan is besides moving connected an eight-episode TV adaptation of Carrie for Prime Video. King’s archetypal published novel, Carrie has antecedently been adapted into movie connected 3 abstracted occasions.

Flanagan is besides presently starring a caller Exorcist movie project, which Scarlett Johansson joined precocious past year.

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