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The First Trailer for The Mist TV Show Expands on Stephen King's Story
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Crimson-Death
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I wonder why do they have to milk it past its expiration date? Or is it expiation? I forget.
The movie was awesome, the novella was great.
There are other King stories that could use the TV show treatment.
Salem's Lot. Even IT would have been better suited. But any of those as a limited series at that.
Whatever, let's see it anyway.
The movie was awesome, the novella was great.
There are other King stories that could use the TV show treatment.
Salem's Lot. Even IT would have been better suited. But any of those as a limited series at that.
Whatever, let's see it anyway.
WordAssassin
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Honestly, the concept is very easily expandable for a long running show.
A military base is doing experiments opening portals to other worlds. Shit goes down and a portal gets left open, the other world starts spilling into ours. From there they can follow the book for Season 1 and then every season after they could go to a new town or city with new characters trying to survive the things coming out of the mist/portal. If they ever want to end it themselves have a season focus on an elite task force going back to the research facility to try and shut down the machine and close the door.
I mean hell they could even do a season through the portal if they wanted but I suspect the budget would be so lacking that it's not even worth it.
For what it's worth, there's a guy who got grabbed by tendrils/tentacles:
So monsters may still be in it, depending on their budget.
You can't steal worthy first post material for the op man.
Neuromancer
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I love the short story and the movie but I'm not sure about this. No part of it looks great to me.
As season through the portal would be pretty horrific, darkness filled with monsters.
http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Todash_space
This show lives and dies on whether or not it can create a character as universally hateable as this fucking bitch:
If they can't do that its a failure from the start.
My wife refuses to watch anything Marcia is in because she hates her that much from The Mist.
wesleyshark
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SirMossyBloke
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Rumblebones
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I been waiting on this.
Really liked the film. Which I felt more of a pull to this cast of mostly unknowns, but I'm still down.
Really liked the film. Which I felt more of a pull to this cast of mostly unknowns, but I'm still down.
Escape Goat
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Yes
Baraka in the White House
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I adore the universe but I highly doubt this will get the budget or direction to be anything more than a Walking Dead-style snoozer with lots of talking and maybe three monster appearances per season.
old manatee
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There are a bunch of interesting King adaptations coming out. I love the book and movie versions of The Mist and think they both stand on their own, but they also have a couple of minor issues that could be addressed. The book has an upsetting Stephen King affair fantasy that I should not have read when I was 10. The movie fixed that, but then changed the ending to something that, while jaw-dropping in the theater, is so extreme that it just becomes silly when you rewatch it. It would be amazing if this show fixed that stuff and then widened the scope of the story in a seamless way. But it's Spike TV so I have to assume it will be a pile of shit.
Fantastical
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My thought too. Doesn't look good to me at all.
The Silver
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i literally had to get up and clap when she got got, I've never come come anywhere close to doing something like that before.This show lives and dies on whether or not it can create a character as universally hateable as this fucking bitch:
If they can't do that its a failure from the start.
My soul would still be burning if she had somehow made it out.
Elegant Weapon
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I recently saw the movie for the first time. I was really into it until that shitty and unsatisfying ending, it was a pretty cool film up until then.
This looks ok, I guess
This looks ok, I guess
WordAssassin
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If they do an ongoing series across different places, the ending of the book works perfectly.
Oh yes I'm familiar
That's why I doubt they'd have the budget to make it happen ):
This is my fear too, it's gonna focus way too much on the human vs human aspect with very little creature time. It's been a while since I've seen it read it but I'm pretty sure that all major action scenes except for one involve monsters so it was pretty monster-heavy.
Ziltoidia 9
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Monsters probably are just humans turned when they breath in the mist. The reason I like the book/movie is because it has the 80s vibe to it, this doesn't seem the same from the trailer.
HomerSimpson-Man
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I hope the lack of other worldly monster shots in this trailer doesn't indicate the budget is too small for it.
Baroquemantic
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Oh wow. Didn't know this was a thing.
Yep my hate for her got personal lol! The only person I hate more is Hugo/Josh Harnett in the Movie "O". To this day I swear to God if I see him at a mall I'll drop kick him down an escalator.
Icebergslim
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The best short story I've read and the new movie was good. With that being said going by the trailer it looks like they are going with some mind control mumbo jumbo. They probably doing this to pad out the show and to make the villains more than just monsters but the people too.
They are going to try and Walking Dead this show. I'm cautiously optimistic.
They are going to try and Walking Dead this show. I'm cautiously optimistic.
This show lives and dies on whether or not it can create a character as universally hateable as this fucking bitch:
If they can't do that its a failure from the start.
I thought her character was laughably unrealistic. It actually made it hard to invest in any of the drama of the movie.
The entire character + her followers felt like a reverse Jack Chick comic to me.
It's a depiction of someone who loses their mind to religion by someone that has never seen what that actually looks like.
MagnaderAlpha
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I was so excited for that show and my god what a shit show. The acting was so bad. I made it 5 episodes before I couldn't take it anymore.
Hopefully, this turns out better but it being on Spike TV has me cautious.
titiklabingapat
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The movie was actually good and the story is self contained enough to be one movie. Stretching this out to a TV series seems like a bad idea with a lower budget and filler story time on Spike, of all places. I have very low expectations.
WordAssassin
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Why do so many people keep talking about padding? They aren't looking to turn the short story into multiple seasons, they're gonna have it follow many groups in different locations. It's right there in the OP.
To be fair though that's part of the point of the whole thing and there in the book and movie too.
The Giant
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This show lives and dies on whether or not it can create a character as universally hateable as this fucking bitch:
If they can't do that its a failure from the start.
If I was stuck is a situation like The Mist. First thing I would do is find out who is a religious nutjob like that cunty bitch in the movie and kick them out and watch them get killed.
Still one of my favorite novellas. The movie was pretty damn faithful to it, not changing much drastically (save the ending, which I think was far better in the film). Apprehensive about stretching this out into a show.
Is it a limited series?
Edit: nm read up more and got the trailer to load (wouldn't for me on YT, for some reason....). Looks kinda shitty. The mist drives them crazy? Ugh. That ain't what Todash space does mang.
Is it a limited series?
Edit: nm read up more and got the trailer to load (wouldn't for me on YT, for some reason....). Looks kinda shitty. The mist drives them crazy? Ugh. That ain't what Todash space does mang.
Crow Pudding
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Show over.
I came looking for this, thanks.
No big chtulhu monsters crossing the mountains, no show for me.
Show over.
Man, I can understand why anyone will get a "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" thoughts if you see this giant monstrosity.
Game over, man. Game over. This world is no longer ours to rule. We're the insects now.
Any Questions
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She was awful, amazing movie all told. I really really enjoyed it. And that ending!
Must admit i think the way or religious nut nut cracked was excellent.
BLOODED_hands
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This show lives and dies on whether or not it can create a character as universally hateable as this fucking bitch:
If they can't do that its a failure from the start.
Fuck did I hate her character.
Isolated incidents sounds like a decent idea for a season. Season 1 - Day 1 would feature 3-4 Episodes spread across random locations, Day 2 3-4 Episodes, and Day 3 3-4 Episode.
Miles Quaritch
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I love the movie, but even there things starting to wear thin about three quarters of the way through. I can't see how they'll stretch this out over a 10+ episode season.
Can't one of these networks do a Cell TV show or hell, give me another The Stand.
Can't one of these networks do a Cell TV show or hell, give me another The Stand.
Funky Papa
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It can't be any worse than Under the Dome, right?
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