This might be an unpopular opinion, but I was disappointed by Frank Darabont's adaptation of the Stephen King novella THE MIST. I loved King's story and didn't feel that the movie lived up to it.
I'll soon have another chance to be impressed with an adaptation of the story, as the production start date is nearing on a ten episode The Mist TV series that is expected to premiere on Spike in 2017.
The series has been developed by Danish writer Christian Torpe, with Fargo pilot director Adam Bernstein set to direct this show's pilot episode as well. The King story they're working from:
It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist… creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project—the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?
The question is, where do you film a show that's set entirely within the confines of a supermarket? For The Mist, the answer may be the old Target store at the Bedford Place Mall building in Bedford, Nova Scotia. According to sources close to the production who spoke with The Chronicle Herald, that Target, which closed in April of 2015, will be the site of six months of filming starting in July.
Sounds like a fine location to me.
So far the only confirmed cast member of The Mist is Frances Conroy, who will be playing an original character, "ecological martyr" Nathalie.
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