Stephen King's The Mist TV Series Gets New Trailer
A new trailer for Spike’s adaptation of the Stephen King novella The Mist has dropped and it’s promising destruction.
The concept is alarmingly simple: a mysterious mist envelopes a Maine town, unleashing horrors on the populace. What follows is how they respond to the horror that surrounds them and the horrors that lie within.
Speaking to news site liljaslibrary (via Empire), Denmark born showrunner Christian Torpe shared his feeling on adapting the work of Stephen King:
“Adapting a book, especially a book by someone I love and respect as much as Mr. King, is, well, horrifying," he said. "You want to be respectful of the material, but in this case there was already one brilliant adaptation of it by Frank Darabont. No point in doing that again. So the question becomes do you leave it, say that it’s already been done, or do you allow yourself to take the source material and reimagine it, but staying true to Mr. King’s vision? I chose the latter."
He goes on to explain that while the show owes a debt to both the novella and the movie, it’s very much its own beast:
“I’ve compared it to the way they approached adapting Fargo," Torpe offered, "not in terms of content, but in how they played with the original material. Some things are exactly the same, some are totally different. Some things you think are the same as in the original, but turn out to be something else entirely. Some things you think make no sense at first, but end up tying into the original story."
The Mist will roll in to Spike on 22nd June.
