Why Frank Darabont Wanted To Adapt Stephen King’s The Mist [Exclusive]

“The extra we progress into the long run,” Darabont continued, “the extra there’s going to be part of society that desires to return to a really primitive, very superstitious [time]. And ‘The Mist’ actually spoke to that.”

Darabont additionally unpacked the film’s central theme, pointing to the scene the place Thomas Jane’s protagonist, David Drayton, says, “Yeah, when the machines are working and every little thing’s tremendous, okay. […] However flip off the lights, and no lights, no machines, no guidelines, you will see how savage individuals get.”

“I like when an unpretentious style film will really current a big theme like that,” Darabont stated. “It is below the donuts and sweet, there’s really a really nutritious meal and I like when that occurs.”

To protect the integrity of its shocking ending, “The Mist” was made below a a lot tighter finances than “Shawshank” or “The Inexperienced Mile.” And because it was coming from the creature characteristic custom, anyway, it noticed Darabont shifting into B-movie mode. But that is one thing that was hard-wired into the DNA of the story, which was additionally excellent fodder for a black-and-white director’s minimize, accessible on the two-disc Blu-ray. 

Darabont concluded:

“After I was studying [‘The Mist’], one way or the other I simply pictured a type of low-budget motion pictures that we grew up all watching. In my case, pre-video, late at evening often on some creature characteristic. It simply jogged my memory of that form of ’50s, early ’60s, low-budget, often black and white, grainy form of horror film. It simply felt like a type of issues. And that appealed to me vastly as properly. So it is a captivating stability to me between very high-brow and really low-brow components. And no one does that higher than Stephen King.”