Ever the devoted Stephen King fan, director Mike Flanagan will write and direct another adaptation of the author’s vast works with a remake of The Mist.
Published as a novella in 1980, The Mist takes place in a Maine smalltown as “a thick mysterious fog from which creatures emerge to attack the townsfolk. A group of survivors hole up in a local grocery store. As often happens with King’s fiction, anarchy and societal reordering brings out the best in some, and the absolute worst in others, sparking mob mentality and empowering unhinged extremists who become as dangerous as the horrors outside.”
Per Deadline, Flanagan will helm the film for Warner Bros. He will produce through Red Room alongside Tyler Thompson with Alexandra Magistro serving as an executive producer. Also producing will be Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Chris Stone.
The Mist was previously adapted into a 2007 film from Frank Darabont which starred Thomas Jane, and then into a TV series in 2017 from Spike.
Flanagan is so stranger to adapting King’s stories as he has directed Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, The Life of Chuck and Prime Video’s upcoming Carrie series. He has also long been attached to helm a TV series based upon King’s epic The Dark Tower for Amazon, an ambitious task which he is still in the middle of developing though it has been a long while since an update was given.
Flanagan is currently getting ready to direct a new installment of The Exorcist franchise with Scarlett Johansson as its lead.
