Frank Darabont Returns!

By Josh Tyler: 2006-10-19 00:00:00

It's been much too long since Frank Darabont's made a movie. He's done a lot of uncredited work on other people's screenplays, but the last real Darabont project was 1999's The Green Mile.

At last, Frank's getting back to making his own movies. Variety says he's adapting yet another Stephen King novella into a film script, and then directing it. The novel in question is The Mist, which Frank will make into a horror film.

Doing a horror movie is something of a departure from his previous movies. Darabont says, "It's time to get down and dirty and make a nasty little character-driven gut-punch horror movie." Apparently, The Mist is a project he and King have been kicking around together for years, but it got shelved in favor of what he calls "classier" work like Shawshank.

"The Mist" was published in 1985 as part of a collection of King short stories. In it, a thick fog or mist engulfs a small town and kills anyone caught up in it. Survivors take refuge in a supermarket, where they end up under siege by murderous beasties trying to get in.

Frank Darabont's no stranger to horror. He cut his teeth writing movies like Nightmare on Elm Street 3, The Blob, and The Fly II. It was only in the 90s with movies like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile that his name became synonymous with what some might consider more respectable fare.

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Rafe Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 11:24
The last Darabont project was not Green Mile. It was The Majestic, an equally awesome Darabontesque movie.

Josh Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 14:51
I think you and I may be two of the only people who liked The Majestic.

Darabont directed it, didn't write it though. Hasn't done any credited writing work since Green Mile. The Mist will be him back to writing and directing his own movies.

jake Says:
October 19th, 2006 at 22:19
Hopefully Darabont can give The Mist an actual ending. The short story was dreadfully anti-climatic ... King is pretty terrible at writing endings when he's sober. His drunken, coked out stories, on the other hand, have magnificent conclusions!

Kevin Karstens Says:
April 14th, 2007 at 17:53
jake...
Apparentley you wouldnt know a great ending if it jumped out of a mist and bit you.
The end to 'THE MIST' is SUPPOSED to be 'anti-climatic'...it leaves the reader hanging, not knowing what happens next...its PERFECT, and if they change it for the film, I may have to kill someone.....;)

K

Kevin Karstens Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 10:18
...Anyone happen to know if Dimesion is still the distributor for this film...and when a trailer will be available to view?

Thanks!
K

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