Mike Flanagan Is Adapting One of Stephen King's Most Controversial Endings

Mike Flanagan has built a reputation as a master of horror and a frequent interpreter of Stephen King, with projects ranging from The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass to Gerald's Game, Doctor Sleep, and the recent The Life of Chuck. He is reportedly finishing a Carrie TV series and has plans for an adaptation of The Dark Tower, and now he is set to take on The Mist, a novella that has already been adapted twice.

The Mist centers on a father and his son trapped in a grocery store with clashing personalities as a mysterious fog brings monsters that snatch anyone who ventures outside. The story suits Flanagan's strengths, but it is best known for an unforgettable and controversial ending that altered King's original conclusion in previous screen versions.

Frank Darabont's 2007 film kept much of King's story but changed the finale, turning King's ambiguous venture into the fog into a bleak, definitive moment in which David kills the other survivors in his car before the military arrives and the mist begins to clear.

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