The Mist

I'm watching this today. When my wife gets home from work . . . yes, she's working and I'm at home, blogging. It's my day off. Where was I. Oh yeah, I loved Stephen King's story as a young boy, but I don't quite remember all of the particulars, like how it ends. There are some foggy memories of what happened towards the end, but Stephen King reveals in the quoted text below that the ending has been changed, by writer/director Frank Darabont, and that he actually loves it. So much indeed that . . . well, read for yourself:

Frank wrote a new ending that I loved. It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead.

So, there you have it. The Stephen King seal of approval. Now, if Hollywood could adapt one of the latest stories I read that he wrote, Cell, I'd be a happy man.

"The Mist" Trailer

"The Mist" creeped me the fuck out when I was a youngster, a time when I read, almost exclusively, Stephen King novels by the handful. Now, my dreams have come true, and a big screen version is set to come out. From the looks of it, the adaptation is treating the source material with the respect it deserves, but that doesn't surprise me. Frank Darabont is at the helm of this movie, and he's worked on some Stephen King work in the past. Now, I wonder if there's something going on with "Cell" which I just finished reading. That would be a pretty interesting movie as well.