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The First Trailer for The Mist TV Show Expands on Stephen King's Story
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The cosmos may interpret that question as a challenge.
Miles Quaritch
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You just had to remind me this mess existed.
KonradLaw
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Not sure. Loved the novella and the movie, but when they announced a tv series I thought they would expand upon the material by showing the Arrowhead projet and exploring more of the monsters/otherworld. Instead it looks like they will just clone the orginal story with introducing more closed locations for different groups of survivors and still don't explain much about the different world.
Basically doing a Walking Dead season 2
Miles Quaritch
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Kinda looks like the mist is now messing with people's minds and showing them visions or some shit.
It's been years since I read the story, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't in there.
eso76
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Yeah this.
SK has stories that would work great as TV Shows, I mean, both IT and The Stand are perfect source material for that. I assume the Dark Tower as well but I never read those.
The Myst though ? Several episodes, seasons possibly, of people in fog ?
Sure, there are ways to expand the story, but they all seem like it would require a much bigger budget than we can expect.
Miles Quaritch
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They stretched people being stuck under a dome across two seasons when at most it should have lasted four/maybe five hours as a mini series.
They'll find a way, it won't make for good television or storytelling, but they'll find a way to stretch it out over multiple seasons if they have to.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Stephen King presents: an abject terror descends upon Fart Creek, USA.
I like the original tale. It's a fun little one that it manages to be dark and oppressive story with some great atmosphere (I think world building may be a bit too much given the scale), but it's not like it has a lot of material to build a multi-season TV show on top of it.
Then there's the movie. Which had some great highs coupled with some hideous lows and some corny yet very interesting creature designs which could be easily replicated on a TV budget. But honestly, it's a story set in a tiny town during a one time event. Keeping the same feeling of dread and terror through several seasons is going to be impossible, not to mention that I don't trust Spike TV of all channels to come with a good story. Show too much of the creatures and they stop being scary. Make it a psychological thriller and it'll be a mess without some stellar writing.
I know damn well I'll be right there for the pilot anyway.
I like the original tale. It's a fun little one that it manages to be dark and oppressive story with some great atmosphere (I think world building may be a bit too much given the scale), but it's not like it has a lot of material to build a multi-season TV show on top of it.
Then there's the movie. Which had some great highs coupled with some hideous lows and some corny yet very interesting creature designs which could be easily replicated on a TV budget. But honestly, it's a story set in a tiny town during a one time event. Keeping the same feeling of dread and terror through several seasons is going to be impossible, not to mention that I don't trust Spike TV of all channels to come with a good story. Show too much of the creatures and they stop being scary. Make it a psychological thriller and it'll be a mess without some stellar writing.
I know damn well I'll be right there for the pilot anyway.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Great movie. This trailer did little for me, and the WOMMM bass drops were too frequent.
beelzebozo
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miniseries would be a better idea.
also, the smaller the monsters in the movie, the worse they looked. big colossi in the mist looked boss.
also, the smaller the monsters in the movie, the worse they looked. big colossi in the mist looked boss.
bengraven
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My favorite story of all time. The ending was open ended, unlike the movie, and I always hoped King would sequelize it.
That said, once the mist arrives it should be pure survival. I'm not sure how this psychological bullshit will work. It's mist full of Lovecraftian monsters not the most itself as the monster.
So is the Walking Dead.
They just need to tell good human stories and show us cool monsters and not prolong it past the fourth or fifth season.
That said, once the mist arrives it should be pure survival. I'm not sure how this psychological bullshit will work. It's mist full of Lovecraftian monsters not the most itself as the monster.
So is the Walking Dead.
They just need to tell good human stories and show us cool monsters and not prolong it past the fourth or fifth season.
bengraven
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Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Tentacle thing right at the start looked hideous beyond words.
Most of the CG was very, very shoddy for its era. I remember being at the cinema, amazed by how awful everything looked. The behemoth and the spider-like things were by far the best of the bunch.
Futurevoid
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The black and white version of the film helps tremendously to hide the shoddy CG. I won't even watch the movie in color anymore.
If TWD can be 90% filler, this can have one hell of an attempt at it.
Man Called Aerodynamics
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This will follow the Walking Dead formula of Action Packed Season Premiere > 8 Episodes of People in a Confined Setting Talking to Each Other > Action Packed Season Finale.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Or just pull another Under the Dome and have us all cackling into an aneurysm at the utter idiocy of all from pilot to season finale.
At least Under the Dome had Rachelle Lefevre looking stunning in skinny jeans.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Sheriff tried to kill us! Let's forgive him... Sheriff tried to kill us again! Let's forgive him again... (Repeat x 2654680)
I didn't like the mist movie, but I'm willing to give the show a chance. I hope it ends up just being a stealth miniseries. As others have said- it needs to have a beginning and end.
Militaratus
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Which Mist is this one continuing? The Pirates of the Mist one, or the I Lol'd at Ending one?
Also in the remake one, I never understood why they didn't just kill the religious bitching or forced her outside, as she was clearly a risk in their survival and obviously trying to get everyone else killed.
Also in the remake one, I never understood why they didn't just kill the religious bitching or forced her outside, as she was clearly a risk in their survival and obviously trying to get everyone else killed.
Herr Schwarz
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It's too bad they are breaking the Franchise up between studios considering it's all one persistent universe, it means you can't get cohesion between themes and designs.
In the Mist there are crabb creatures that are featured in other books, and I think there's even links to IT. In there right?
So what would of been great would be starting to link those differing worlds but since it's all being whored to different buyers that'll be impossible.
In the Mist there are crabb creatures that are featured in other books, and I think there's even links to IT. In there right?
So what would of been great would be starting to link those differing worlds but since it's all being whored to different buyers that'll be impossible.
I wish they at least talked to each other
Most of the time TWD characters just make angry faces while in a dangerous silence.
And then they say something DEEP
And then season finale with the worst shooting action ever filmed
EDIT: And then Tv review says it was fantastic. Audience snores and wake up when the cell phone falls in the face
Extra Sauce
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"we can't keep running away... we have to take the fight to their dimension"
Bobby Roberts
Banned
No idea why people keep bringing this up as some sort of positive example
1) that shit was an ongoing with no sign of ever ending when it got adapted.
2) it went off the rails verry early in its lifetime
3) is sadistic, wheel spinning trash now and has been for the last 5 years.
I mean, sure, The Mist could be that too, but who here would actually want that shit?
Why?
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
It was one of the few amazing things about the movie.
I can always appreciate a nicely thrown, unexpected gut punch.
WordAssassin
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Yes. I don't know if you care to be spoiled but the ending of the book is VERY different from the movie. King, however, said he absolutely loved the ending of the movie, for whatever that's worth.
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.
She was right, though - he sacs the kid, and what happens?
……forgetit
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This American remake of Digimon Tamers seems pretty interesting.
Extra Sauce
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Context? That looks hilarious but I'm guessing it's not meant to be.
The ending is fantastic
The only low point of the movie is the unfortunally bad early 2000´s CG - and that is just a few moments in the movie
Somebody should make a REMASTER with BETTER GRAPHICS
Might just read the story then, I have some free time over Easter and I have not read anything King since hitting puberty.
Extra Sauce
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I love the ending but it is constrained by Thomas Jane's limitations as an actor.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
Eh... naw. It's a lie perpetuated by cinema. The bigger you are doesn't mean you're flesh is more durable, just thicker. Even then we have weapons that will make mince meat of those slow giants. Makes you question all of pacific rim's logic.
I mean in one of the endings(i think official)
the military just cleaned up and got rid of them, the townfolks had no chance but any decent military had no problems
Questioning the logic of people using giant robots in a giant robot film kind of misses the point.
WordAssassin
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Yeah, the Mist as well as like... 18 other Stephen King books are all part of The Dark Tower (some in more subtle ways than others, like The Mist and IT). Doing something on that scale... like that's beyond even what Marvel is doing. It would be so cool but I don't think even the DT movies will do it justice, let alone trying to expand out beyond that main story.
New trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXoDnWYWZw
For sure more intriguing than the first one imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXoDnWYWZw
For sure more intriguing than the first one imo
Messofanego
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There's no way it's going to match one of the best horror movies of the 2000s. I doubt they're going to show much of the monsters, cause of budgetary reasons so it'll just be a chamber drama.
EdibleKnife
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LOL always love wildy different reactions between consecutive posts.
I actually really really love the movie. Saw it first before even knowing the novella existed and hoped for a bigger look at the overrun world. Reading the novella now and am cautiously optimistic about the series. Hopefully it really does surpass Under The Dome.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Jesus christ that looks violent as FUCK
CreepingFear
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In 4 Ruth Fisher.
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