'The Mist': Mike Flanagan To Direct New Stephen King Adaptation

Mike Flanagan has become the go-to filmmaker for new Stephen King adaptations. Rather than moving next to the Amazon MGM Studios' Dark Tower series, he will direct a new movie version of The Mist for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Flanagan will follow his Carrie TV series with a remake of King’s 1980 novella, collected in the 1985 Skeleton Crew. After his runs on Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game and The Life of Chuck, some have questioned why he would take on another remake.

The Mist centers on a small Maine town plunged into an impenetrable fog that seems to contain otherworldly creatures. As a group gathers in a local grocery store, tempers fray, secrets are revealed and the situation exposes both the best and worst of people when escape appears impossible.

The story was previously adapted as Frank Darabont’s 2007 movie, which still has one of the most devastating endings in cinema history, and as a single-season TV series in 2017.

United States, Maine

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