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- Guncrazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14There is no such thing as a Stephen King fan who hasn't heard of "The Mist."
- Workster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This story supposedly to some degree inspired the creators of the PC game Half-life.
- Crispin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You should really read up on what you make comments about. John Carpenter's "The Fog" is about as relevant to "The Mist" as "Driving Miss Daisy" is to "Days of Thunder".
- NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I just want my Talisman movie.
- jer.williams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I had The Myst as a book on tape years ago, and it's probably one of the best I've ever heard. It was done like a radio drama, with sound effects and actors for every part, but it incorporated a kind of surround sound technology that worked with headphones. There was even a short demo of the tech before the story began with a guy making his voice go all around you. Worth seeking out.
Anyway, creepy story. Looking forward to the movie. - krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13Quotes From Family Guy
Stewie: How deliciously evil. It's like something out of Stephen King.
[flashback]
Stephen King: Now for my 300th novel, a couple... is attacked... by a giant lamp monster.
Editor: You're not even trying anymore are you? - TechPedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, no it isn't. It's from the book 'Skeleton Crew', which is all King era stuff. ( http://www.amazon.com/Skeleton-Crew-Signet-Stephen-King/dp/0451168615 )
I do, however, agree that 'The Long Walk' would be insanely cool to see. - bmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Except for . . . King's version came out first.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I never thought about it but Half-Life is totally The Mist: Government experiment gone awry, transdimensional rift, bizarre monsters roaming the landscape...
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Digging this comment down makes the manatees cry.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have this CD. It was recorded with the Neumann "Fritz" microphone: http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=ku100_description
"The dummy head is a replica of the human head with a microphone built into each ear.
When the recorded audio signal is reproduced through high-quality headphones the listener perceives a sound image almost identical to the one he would have heard at the recording location of the dummy head." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It did inspire Half Life. The makers say so themselves in this article.
http://uk.gamespot.com/features/halflife_final/part3.html - cualcrees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That would be sweet!! The long walk its a great story!
- bmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, it is part of "Skeleton Crew".
He wrote "Thinner", "Rage", "The Long Walk", "The Running Man", and some other story about a guy who doesn't want his house bulldozed, under his Bachman pen name. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I'm quite a Stephen King fan, but I've never even heard of "The Mist"
I still pray for Dark Tower movie. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Read it, it's excellent.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2kudos to mentioning the Long Walk, its one of his finest works
- McGrude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rage. That'd be a good one too. ( also on R. Bachman I believe ).
- lustre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read The Mist when I was in my late teens and although I found it a bit bleak and disturbing I also thought that it just went nowhere. The ending seems to just peter out.
At least in the movie they'll be able to roll credits to let you know the story is over. - NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I know it inspired silent hill a ton. Dont know about Half Life. Perhaps you're confusing the two?
- drunkjack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'll believe it when I see it on a news site that isn't known for lying it's ass off and selling it's opinions.
***** Harry Knowles. - malfourmed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@missflibbles
There is no official definition when a short short ends and a short story begins, or a short story ends and a novelette begins, or a novelette ends and a novella begins ... or (finally) when a novella ends and a novel begins.
However the Science Fiction Writers of America have adopted the following criteria for Nebula Award eligibility (http://www.sfwa.org/awards/faq.htm):
# Novel — 40,000 words or more
# Novella — 17,500–39,999 words
# Novelette — 7,500–17,499 words
# Short Story — 7,499 words or fewer
("Short shorts" are typically 1 or 2 thousand words or fewer.)
Others will argue that a novel has to contain at least 50,00 words ... or 80,000.
In any case, nobody as far as I'm aware, would consider a 10,000 word piece to be a novel. - dslartoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, hey, this is cool news (for a change, AICN lives up to its name). I love the story and have been rereading it for twenty years. One of my favorites of all his stuff.
Not sure I like Darabont's talk of shooting it "fast-fast-fast", but maybe he's just enthusiastic about getting started.
Wonder who they'll cast in this one. I'd actually like to see it with a bunch of Everymen, no big stars at all. That's kind of the whole idea behind the story; scary things happen to completely ordinary people. - dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its about time. I think I heard it was being made into a movie on HSX.com like six years ago.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@bmcnally
I feel like such a lamer, because I know I've read Skeleton Crew, and apparently The Mist was so far from memorable that it's news to me that it even exists...
...and yes I know it's been weeks since this story was posted. - soccerob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1anyone know if the audio cd of this story is available anywhere? it's a great listen on headphones but i haven't heard it in years.
- sprag80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Mist is one of King's best and creepiest stories.The story has nasty monsters galore and oozes ickiness. I remember reading that the Half-Life game was based, in part, on Mist. If this is true, I'll be first in line to see it.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rage would be cool too, but in this post-columbine, amish school shooting era, studio execs might be hesitant to green light a movie with a sympathetic school shooter
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A Dark Tower movie would never work. Seriously. And yes, I realize the same was said about Lord of the Rings; a movie was more plausible of LOTR, and even then only because PJ and Fran Walsh (etc.) did a heavy screen-friendly rewrite.
The thing is, you'd find it hard to pull off the thing, because even more than LotR, Dark Tower can be summed up as:
They walked, then they walked, then they walked some more, then they bedded down for the night, then one of the main characters had a vision, then they got up, they walked, there was dialog, there's a flashback, and now we're walking again.
I'll not spoil it by throwing in the major anticlimactic scene at the end of DT7.
The real hitch is Roland, who has the nobility of Aragorn yet morals only slightly better than Snake Pliskin. Add to that the characters drawn not only from different time periods but different universes (yet are all New Yorkers) and all the tiresome side-quests that are nonetheless a very important part of the story, and the real kicker is that many of them only make sense when you reach the end, and finally the vast number of copyright and trademark disputes you'd have to resolve (wonder how Holmes Dental would feel about being mentioned...can't really have Odetta and the Tet Corporation without Holmes Dental), and to top it off they'd probably hand the whole mess over to some hack like Bruckheimer.
Thank you, but no. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i guess i must have read it thene, i did read skeliton crew (and nightmares and dreamscapes, if its in there instead)- just don't remember it i spose
- bmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can't be serious?! "The Mist" is a classic!
I think that the book that it was in was "Skeleton Crew", which was easily one of his most creepy collections of short stories. My favorites "The Mist" and "The Raft" are two of his scariest stories. - NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Funny you should mention it being the perfect introduction novel into the Dark Tower because thats exactly what it did for me. But then book 6, 7 and to a lesser degree 5 came out and disappointed the HELL out of me. As for the IMDB, i've known about it for about 2 years. Nothing has become of it much though. Starting to wonder whats going on.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If I'm correct, at 10,000 words it's a novel, and less than that is a novella. I'm not sure where the cutoff is for short story and novella, but I think it's around 5000.
King's novels are good, but his short stories from back in the day are better.
Any english/journalism majors who actually know? - westpur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, Well, Well...... "The Mist" movie set is being constructed in Vivian La. looks good so far. not sure when shooting will start but never the less you are one step closer to seeing it ........Westpur
- Anagrama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My only concern is that they would get Haley Joel Osment to play the lead. Seeing them edit out any "slow parts" (ie the bar work) would also concern me.
If Michael Bay showed interest in directing it, I would poke my eyes out.
On second thought, maybe it should just stay the perfect introduction novel to the Dark Tower.
Edit:
I just found this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/
it doesn't say much, but it is out there - boo6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A fantastic story..can't wait.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Mist was a short story from early in his career.
- jtown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder if I still have a copy of that old PC game. It didn't work with my QX-PC 8088 card so I never got to play it. I wonder if I could round an IBM XT to play it. :)
- BladeDanger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For those of us with download savy, there's a radio play of The Mist floating around in the ether.
- zardoz73, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Kick ass! If you haven't read this before, it's under Richard Bachman, King's pen name back in the 80s. One of his best works, IMHO. It's a novella--too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel. About 150 pages, I think. Very creepy and disturbing. Hope Hollywood doesn't stray from the orignal too much. Next up: The Long Walk!
- BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Did that hack Frank Darabont just compare his The Green Mile to a Beethoven symphony??
ROTFLMAO.
Dude, get off your high horse. You've directed exactly ONE good movie in your life (Shawshank).
By the way....The Mist is a story about some people who are stuck in a grocery store together as this dangerous mist rolls into town. People who go into the mist...don't come back. It is a short story in Stephen King's best book, "Skeleton Crew". It's an awesome collection of short stories that King wrote when he was in his prime. - Boor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Define "short" I dislike reading anything under a certain page amount, cause it usually ends too quickly, especially from someone as good as Stephen .
- Chasuk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Crispin wrote:
> You should really read up on what you make comments about. John Carpenter's "The Fog" is about as relevant to "The Mist" as "Driving Miss Daisy" is to "Days of Thunder".
Both "The Mist" and "The Fog" are about creepy precipitation, and I find neither scary, not even remotely, which was my point: one of King's worst works, and it get filmed before several of his better works. "The Mist" might have been mildly suspenseful if I'd been 12 when I read it, I suppose. Oh, well. Opinions differ.
bmcnally wrote:
> Except for . . . King's version came out first.
You'll have do your homework a bit better next time. In order of appearance:
"The Fog," by James Herbert. 1975 (novel)
"The Fog," by John Carpenter. February 1980 (film)
"The Mist," by Stephen King. 1980, 1985 (short story)
"The Mist" appeared in a wonderful anthology in in the UK called "Dark Forces" that I bought in paperback for Christmas. The UK version was longer than the version that later appeared in "Skeleton Crew."
ALL of the stories in the "Dark Forces" anthology were better than "The Mist." To see for yourself, the book in its original edition and several reprints are available on Amazon.
You get modded up by King fans (I am a moderate King fan) because you don't know what you are talking about, and I get moderated down because I do. - BladeDanger, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1I retract that statement.
- Chasuk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1So, James Herbert writes The Fog (also about creepy precipitation), John Carpenter directs The Fog (different story, but ALSO about creepy precipitation), and then Stephen King writes a retread that wasn't creepy at all, and now they are going to film it?
Give up while you are ahead, Frank (Darabont). "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" I understand, but some schlock you should leave alone.
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