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Mrs. Carmody and Ollie have been cast in Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's THE MIST!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I love King's short stories, but my favorite of them all has always been THE MIST. There's just something perfect about the scenario of trapping a bunch of people in a grocery store as the world goes to shit outside. And when that shit happens to contain giant tentacle monsters, that just takes THE MIST up to that next level. I can't wait to see Darabont finally get going on this, which just started shooting.
He's cast Mrs. Carmody, one of the best evil cunts ever conceived and Ollie the super-market owner. We have Marcia Gay Harden as Mrs. Carmody and Toby Jones as Ollie. Jones recently made a bit of a splash playing Truman Capote in that other Capote movie, INFAMOUS. Harden is a bit younger than I pictured Carmody, but I can see her turn on the crazy bitch and work it well. What do you folks think?
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OK, I'm not making any Gay Hard-on Jokes but I think Marcia will be good. Look forward to her turn in Lincoln as well.
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I don't think she's too young at all. Nice casting. I still picture Ollie played by John C Reilly. Damn, I can't wait for this friggnin' thing!!! My only concern right now is the filming in Louisiana. They wouldn't set it there, would they? With Darabont in control, I'd guess No Way, it has to be set in Maine.
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I don't think anyone but Darabont should be allowed to adapt any of King's works. Can't wait to see him do a more actiony creepy crawly film.
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Tom Jane works well in anything,movie version sounds awesome.
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...about a movie project since The Lord of the Rings. And I was actually less optimistic about that project because I had no idea who Peter Jackson was at the time (I had ony seen The Frighteners from his body of work). I literally start to tremble with anticipation when I talk about this project. It's one of King's very best works and has always struck me as a perfect concept for a movie. And if there's anypne who can pull off the translation...
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What!!! No Shia LeBeouf. I like it Hammer.
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I think Reiner did well by Stand By Me and esp Misery..too bad he can hardly direct traffic anymore...after History of Violence, would love to see Cronenburg (sp) tackle another King....
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I've always hoped that a talented director could adapt one of King's "Lovecraftian" tales - this will probably be the closest we ever get to seeing a true Lovecraft style story on film for a long time. Thank god Darabont's the one doing it.
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Carmody younger than I expected too, but I really dig the casting. As for Toby Jones? It's all good, I trust Frank D. (not me, the other one)
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. . . Darabont directed Dreamcatcher, do you?
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I remember I liked it...
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the 2005 version, that is.
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Feb 22, 2007 11:15:26 AM CST
I always thought of Carmody as that B***H from Gremlins
by carmillavondoom
THAT would have been perfect casting imo. Too lazy to look up her name, but props to her she was a good villain.
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I always pictured Mrs. Carmody as some fat, fifty year old hag, but Harden can act so that's good. As for Ollie, I can't really remember his character.
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THAT'S HOW THIS SHOULD BE SHOT...SO PLEASE...IN BLACK AND WHITE PLEASE!!! --G
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And I mean that in a bad way. You would think it would be kinda original and cool to have a story concentrate on the action and not worry about things like where did these things actually come from. It's not.
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Fuckers.
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Yeah... Reiner did do a good job w/ his.Love me some Cronenberg but Dead Zone just didn't really work for me.I would love to see a really twisted proper Cronenberg treatment of The Lawnmower Man.
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She was "Flo"(Kiss My Grits) from the "Alice" TV show too.The only reason that's at the forefront of my brain is that that was who I thought Mrs.Carmody was too.
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I always thought Mrs. Carmody should be played by this great character actress named Lois Smith, who seems to be a guest star on just about every TV hospital series known to mankind.
Something about her just says, "Looks like a sweet old granny, but she's crazier than a junebug on a red hot griddle."
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I had always thought Goodman would be a great Ollie from the moment I read the book. Dreams are being crushed as we speak.
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Feb 22, 2007 2:06:08 PM CST
Jake Lloyd as the tentacle...
by film_fanatic_in_the_original_black_and_w
He ruined Episode I and Madison. That little bastard.
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Isn't the Mist really just a Thinny and the creatures from Todash deadspace?
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not even fuckin close, chuckles.
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and not have any voice over...
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...when he wrote The Mist, but it certainly was a dot connected to the Tower saga by many after Wizard & Glass explored the concepts you describe. I don't honestly know if King's ever officially weighed in on the subject, but The Mist predates references to Thinnies in the Tower books. It wouldn't be the first time King had recycled an idea...or the first time he'd retroactively connected something to soemthing else he wrote.
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I'm sure I remember reading a collection of his short stories ages ago and this was one of them. From what I remember it would only work as the first few scenes for a film - they're going to have to flesh it out a lot.
Still, it's stuck in my head for a long time - a very good idea and I'd always half expected it to be made into a tv-movie. -
There's a lot to work from
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...quick read. A lot of those pages are descriptions of things you can't quite see, which is incredibly effective in print. I'm very much looking forward to how it plays out on film. There will need to be a slow dawning terror as the folks trapped inside the shopping center begin to realize what's going on. I can see some people maybe complaining that a movie, if done right, takes too long to get to "the good stuff," but what makes the good stuff so good is that it comes from a radical left turn off the road of sanity on an otherwise normal day. Definitely shades of Lovecraft if not an out and out tribute. Truly King at his descriptive and characterizational best and in his best medium (the novella).
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I read an interview with Darabont where he said he was going to film in the style of "The Shield", which he directed an episode of last season. I love Darabont's past King adaptations, but this really worries me. I HATE shaky cam work, and it sounds like that's what he's going for. What made Shawshank and Green Mile great is, in part, how elegantly they are filmed. Now we may be subjected to vomit-inducing shakiness. I hope not, since I love King and this is one of my favorite novellas of his. I COULD and SHOULD be a great film, as long as it doesn't make me sick!
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...it was one of those things we'd talk about being made into a movie but never thought would. Can't even say how excited I am that it's being made. And tentacles, sure, but it's those labrador-sized spiders and the giant foot that have me the most excited. As for the connection to the Dark Tower, don't even think about it. This story was one of the best three things King's ever done and it as close to just raw, elemental horror as he ever got. Damn I can't wait for this movie.
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as she works outside with the mist rolling in.
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...not really. Think more the wildest 50s apocalyptic horror/sci-fi movie ever made. It is easily the most cinematic story of King's movie treatment in novel form career, but the effects were so gigantic that it seemed impossible, at the time the novella came out, that it would ever be made. Had a friend who would always whine about how they could make it an animated film. Of course, the world of film is a much different place now than it was then.
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Release date? Can I see it now?
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...at IMDB. Jane and Holden will do, and Sadler will do just fine.
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I thought Darabont gave an interview recently where he said Frances Sternhagen was going to be in this.I assumed it was her playing the Carmody part.That would have been good casting of a a Stephen King regular(Misery,T.V.'s Golden Years).Wonder if she had to back out?
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It's nice seeing a list of really good character actors being cast, because it's at least giving the impression of being something special. Also, I have a giant man-crush on Thomas Jane. He comes off as one of those very talented and capable actors who stays away from the typical Hollywood bullshit fest. Now hopefully they'll put him in a GOOD Punisher movie...
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Of course he is a Darabont "regular." He was in Shawshank, had a token appearance in Green Mile. (I have no idea if he was in Majestic.) And I believe, by sheer coincidence, he also voiced the main character in the ZBS produced "radio drama" version of The Mist. (Which is fantastic, BTW.) Of course, none of this is any guarantee he'll actually play the lead in Darabont's movie version. (He's not exactly a big box office draw.) But there are enough connected dots at this point that I can already imagine Sadler nervously sitting by his phone saying, "Come on, please call me, Frank. You know you want to."
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Now THIS is a Stephen King adaptation I can really get behind. The Dark Tower, I greet with dread, but this I'm looking forward to. For one, it's a self-contained story, and less hard to screw up. Two: Darabont is a solid director, and has a shot at making this great. Three: I don't "care" as much about the source material in this case as I do the Dark Tower; so if they screw of The Mist, I'll be disappointed, sure, but not heart-broken...... BTW, I always thought that having the occassional voice-over would've been essential if one wanted to retain the open-ending of the source novella, and still make it "work" within the audio-visual medium.
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Of course, I meant to say, "harder to screw up." Or even, "easier to adapt successfully."
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Who cares if it has anything to do with it 'officially.' What a horrible idea tying most of his books together into a single thread.
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Polly Holliday would have been great casting in the 1980's. Wasn't George Romero attached back then? Woulda been interesting to see.
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