Mike Flanagan to Adapt ‘The Mist’ for Warner Bros.

(Left) Director Mike Flanagan on the set of ‘The Life of Chuck’. Photo: Neon. (Right) Author Stephen King. Photo: Stephen King/Facebook.

Preview:

Mike Flanagan will adapt ‘The Mist’.
It’ll be based on the story from Stephen King.
The tale was previously turned into a movie in 2007.

At this point, Mike Flanagan may as well just go ahead and rebrand himself as the go-to director for Stephen King adaptations. He’s brought us several in the past, including ‘Gerald’s Game,’‘Doctor Sleep’ and last year’s ‘The Life of Chuck.’ On the small screen, he has a ‘Carrie’ series in the works.

Now, he’s also going to be tackling a fresh adaptation of ‘The Mist.’

“Fear changes everything.”

Release Date: Nov 21, 2007

Run Time: 2 hr 6 min

Budget: $18,000,000

Deadline brings word that Warner Bros. has made a deal for Flanagan to write and direct a new take on King’s 1980 novella, which originally appeared in the collection ‘Skeleton Crew.’

Related Article: Mike Flanagan to Adapt Stephen King Classic ‘Carrie’ into a TV Series

What’s the story of ‘The Mist’?

(L to R): Marcia Gay Harden, William Sadler, Toby Jones and Jeffrey DeMunn in ‘The Mist’ (2007). Photo: Dimension Films.

King’s story concerns what happens when a small town in Maine is consumed by a thick mysterious fog from which creatures emerge to attack the townsfolk.

A group of survivors hole up in a local grocery store. As often happens with King’s fiction, anarchy and societal reordering brings out the best in some, and the absolute worst in others, sparking mob mentality and empowering unhinged extremists who become as dangerous as the horrors outside.

Spoiler alert: things get dark. Very dark.

When will ‘The Mist’ be on screens?

There is no date for the new version as of yet, but if you want to check it out in movie form, Frank Darabont brought a film of the story to screens back in 2007.