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Frank Darabont wants to say 'Howdy!' to AICNers from the set of Stephen King's THE MIST!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... There are two Darabont scripts that I'd help kill to see get made. His script for FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury. And this script for Stephen King's THE MIST. They were both perfect adaptations. In particular - his script for THE MIST is a perfect page turner. When the shit hits the fan, it's gonna get dirty, messy and shit is gonna go flying. In fact - going to see THE MIST, you should realize right from the get go... it's gonna get mean and ugly. This will be, hands down, the most viscerally horrific Stephen King adaptation yet - and I for one, can not wait. Frank sent me this fun, "Greetings to AICN-ers from me, Thomas Jane, and Norm the bag boy. (But you have to guess which one is Norm...)" Click on the pic to get it more bigger!
Of course, Norm is being played by Chris Owen! Frank is gonna be giving us a peek from time to time at glimpses of fun from within THE MIST!
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Loved it, and most of Skeleton Crew.
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quiet at the top...
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I seriously thought he would be more of a leading man after the punisher. I don't know what went wrong... He needs to fire his agent...
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I thought it was gonna be all misty and stuff. Damn, I hate surprises!
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I can't wait for this one! By far, this was my number one choice for movie adaptations from King. Looks like it's gonna get done right too! Excellent!
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was a good group of stories. The Mist definitely tops that list...though I get a kick out of how 50% of King's stories involving disaster end up with a, "I can't get in touch with anybody, so my wife must be dead...I'll bang this lady in the dark closet" scenario.
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Injuries like these are nothing to make fun of so I got no idea why tthey are smiling. Must be the shock.
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The four stories I remember best are THE MIST, which was badass but didn't scare me and then THE MONKEY, THE JAUNT and GRAMMA which all seriously fucked my shit up.
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..and I haven't even read a word of the script (read the book, was great!). Thomas Jane looks fat in that picture.
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I'm a sophisticated sex robot, sent back in time to change the future for one lucky lady
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This can't go wrong
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Like you've never gotten scared and screwed the person next to you. Dire situations cause people to react in unpredictable/horny ways. I feared for my life when I reached over and grasped my neighbor's hand. She squeezed back and we bumped the sweetest of uglies. I cried out my girlfriend's name, she called out, "I like Ike!" When they turned back on the escalator, I helped her to her walker and we never spoke of it again.I can still smell the Ben Gay...
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...just thinking about how ass-kickingly awesome this movie has the potential to be. Thanks, Frank.
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And review that fucker! Though, the gobbler on Lucas at last nights Oscars ..... meh.I can't wait for this! All I can say is holy shit. "Holy Shit"
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Nice Shot. I can't wait to see this. It's been a long time coming.
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I'd never read "The Mist," so I checked Skeleton Crew out of the library yesterday after reading all the hype from you geeks. This story had better not suck...But what am I saying? This is AICN, and they never hype up anything that turns out to suck!
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So pleeeeeeeze, go balls out!
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Personally, I wish Darabont would take on The Long Walk before this one but The Mist will have to do. GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT! GOTTA EAT!
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If the Dark Tower ends up getting adapted, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make sure you have something to do with it! If there's anyone I want to see working with the DT material it is you. JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof will be idiots if they don't somehow make you a part of it!!
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Here's your Masters of Horror.
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You know how rabid we are for anything "Mist" - thanks for the perfectly bloody postcard!
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How bout it, anyone? Or, I dunno... it's like a reall big mouth in relation to his nose and eyes, or SOMETHING. His smile just looks very disturbing in that photo.
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it just hit me that he totally in that photo reminds me of Richard Christy of the Stern show.
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This is why I keep coming back to this site. Great fun. Kudos to Harry and thanks to Mr. Darabont and co. for the shout out. Looks like fun.
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Look at the size of that thing. That'd make any gal happy.
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NOT A FINGAH!!!
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...that I'd help kill to see get made....
ind... Just kidding. I think it's good to leave this whole "Darabont draft" thing alone (for awhile), for his misty sake... I actually like it how he appreciates some good places for film in the internet... -
is The Man. Angus. American Pie. Van Wilder. October Sky. She's All That. Can't Hardly Wait. I practically grew up with this kid. Between this and 5-25-77, the Sherminator is making a serious comeback, and if doesn't, I'll eat a pube pizza.
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cuz, as the pic makes it obvious, Norm the Bag Boy get about 3 pages in The Mist before he's tentacled.
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...I mean, they gotta eat!
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really?
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1408, the DT stuff, now this?!?! Fuck yea!
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See Tramamdol....lol.
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I meant tramadol, my fault.
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no more Dreamcatcher. Period. That was shit - a film with big budget and good cast & crew, and they fucked it up without a hope of redemption. Almost as bad was Hearts In Atlantis, but that was just slow and inoffensive, yet still irritating.
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RIGHT?
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Just hope you don't have the same habits! Greetings, from "The Thing From Another World" Halloween show. Top marks on the "Mist" script by-the-way.
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Seriously, since this film finally got on track, I've been going crazy for more! 'The Mist' is beginning to usurp my eagerness for 'Transformers.' And then there's this pic, which really gets me excited. Hopefully, Frank will make sure that any and all creatures will be saved til' the film (If Spielberg was able to keep 'WOtW's tripods a secret, hopefully Darabont can do the same...actually, maybe a hint of tentacle wouldn't be so bad). My biggest request is: I want SOUND! Anyone who has read the book knows how much sound plays a part in the film-notably the strange noises from the mist, the people's screams stopping halfway through. This film would be perfect for a great THX experience.
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He must be one energy inefficient robot!
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thank you.
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Of course, I've been waiting for about ten years, so another one won't kill me.
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Great scary gruesome story, a gifted director with a great track record of adapting King's works; I might have to miss it, I'd hate to piss myself in the theater, then spill a $6.00 diet coke on my pants to cover it. Again.
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Finally, a mention of the genius that is "Angus"!
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This guy is a rare breed in Hollywood these days... Someone who actually VALUES story and knows how to tell one.
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When Frank Castle enjoys showing off is work...
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on the wrong grapefruit!
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Made into a movie for years, since I first read the short story. It's a great idea.
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nice to see scut farkus is still getting work.
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Between this and the rumored Eli Roth film of CELL, King is getting some pretty awesome directors for his material lately...
And everybody criticizes DREAMCATCHER, but you know, it wasn't that bad. I felt like a lot of what people were criticizing in the movie was just stuff that reflected how off-beat many parts of the book were. -
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Seriously. I know it was butchered as a feature film, but if anyone here has read the story (especially since it was written BEFORE reality tv) they would know that it deserves serious treatment and not the WWE Smackdown it was given in the 80's. No movie has made me shake my head and ask "Why?" like that one. Also, brilliant observation about Kings tendancy to insert (heh) a "We're screwed so let's screw!" scene into many of his stories. My favorite was The Lake (couple stranded on a raft, surrounded by predatory black goop) although the kids gang-banging the girl in IT ranks up there.
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Quite simply, Darabont and King are a spectacular combination and seeing Darabont having a go at a real genre piece after Redemption and Mile is gonna be a treat - I love that Darabont seems to be gunning for a fast and furious shoot which should translate into a fast, furious and fucking scary horror film...American horror seems to have been lost to sadistic things like Saw and Hostel which seem more concerned with explicitness and not with narrative - if Darabont pulls this off, I get the feeling it's gonna just creep up on the mainstream audience without 'em knowing it and kick their ass.
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and more on personal horror. The Mist has a bit of both, it's certainly not the best thing of his I've read. The whole scenario seems to have been done to death, especially in movies. Maybe Darabont can pull something original out of it, but it'll be hard not to make the first part, where the tentacles are trying to get into the building and kill people, not suck. When I read it I felt like putting it down at that point because it seemed so fucking cheesy and boring (I mean...tentacles coming out of some mist trying to get into a grocery store, just replace them with zombies and call it Dawn Of The Dead then masturbate into your own shit FFS), and the cliched characters including the usual annoying fucker who thinks he won't get hurt if he opens the back door, the kid character, the religious nutjob old bitch screaming that the world's gonna end, the geeky but good guy etc. and the King staple of the main guy wondering if his wife's dead or not. This movie will be good until the tentacles arrive, then it'll just be any other horror.
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Always let them cool a couple minutes in the microwave before removing.
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Definitely my favorite King story. Who would of thought he could keep my attention that long with a woman handcuffed to a bed in the middle of no where with her husband dead at the end of the bed from a heart attack. I still have nightmares about that dude in the corner with the bag of bones. Damn.
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Deviation from the book. Surprisingly good friends part, great ass-snake part, the brain-library hide was good, as was casting except for... terrible miscasting with Freeman. Not crazy enough (Rutger Hauer insanity was needed) and then destroyed by "good" alien popping out of mentally challenged bum-bums. WTF was that about? WHY ruin already well-written endings? Pet Cemetary suffered the same problem. Leave the ending as it was in the book. Wife comes up stairs says "Honey I'm home", and that's it. Is she possessed by an evil spirit? Did she make it alright because her body was fresh? I don't know, and that's the scary part of Horror. Don't neatly wrap it up for me in the movie and have Denise Crosby walk in with a gushing-blood eyeball with intent to kill. Ugh
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Man was I excited when the movie was announced way back when. And oh what a POS it turned out to be. If someone really adapted the story I hope that they would rename it so it wouldn't be tainted by the stench of the first "adaption".
It really coould be a great action flick.
"Rich folks smoke Doakes"
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The written ending kicks ass, however people are a little touchy about flying airplanes into building these days. It would be hard to exclude that and have the same impact.
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this movie being any good. I don't like being negative but almost every SK adaptation has sucked BIG TIME.
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An epic that will kick ass!
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