The Mist - TV series

Tombstone · 14 Apr 2017 at 19:27

I remember the film of this, quite enjoyed the film and I liked the short story too, didnt know that they were bringing out a tv series of it.

checjb · 14 Apr 2017 at 21:31

That looks intriguing and hopefully won't have that same gut-punch ending from Darabont's film.

roge8014 · 8 May 2017 at 16:34

New trailer.

Mark A · 9 May 2017 at 06:03

There seems to be a lot of TV shows based on films recently. Hopefully its better than The Exorcist as that was a bit rubbish. The Mist film was great, but I'm not sure how it'll work as a tv show.

Kainz · 9 May 2017 at 08:38

How on earth did I miss this one! Hope it turns out to be good for once. Damien and Exorcist I couldn't get into at all. The former I'm hoping will get better.

Vimes · 9 May 2017 at 09:07

Remember what they did with the Stephen King book "Under the Dome"......? Goodness knows how that ran for three seasons.

Hopefully this will be better, it would be difficult to be worse, unless you count Wayward Pines.

Aberfala · 9 May 2017 at 18:41

checjb said:
That looks intriguing and hopefully won't have that same gut-punch ending from Darabont's film.

I loved the ending.

something daft already!! · 9 May 2017 at 18:44

They must have thought this was a mist opportunity.

I'll get me coat.

Punt · 11 May 2017 at 10:03

I enjoyed the movie, not as much as the short story it was based on though.

This looks promising. Hope it's better then Under the Dome, that was a bit poo!

Kainz · 11 May 2017 at 10:36

Hopefully they will go into better detail about what happened at the Black Mesa facility in the film.

Willir · 11 May 2017 at 13:41

I kind of liked Darabont's film version, not a fan of the ending though. Watched the trailer for the TV series and looks really good, will be giving it a go as I'm a huge King fan. Shame Under the Dome was ****.

roge8014 · 11 May 2017 at 14:12

Willir said:
I kind of liked Darabont's film version, not a fan of the ending though. Watched the trailer for the TV series and looks really good, will be giving it a go as I'm a huge King fan. Shame Under the Dome was ****.

I was reading an article yesterday about TV adaptions of King's novels - interesting to see that none of them actual survive very long - Under the Dome lasted longer than all the rest of them.

Mr Mercedes is also being adapted for TV, makes me wonder if they do series one as the first book, series two as Finders Keepers and series three as End of Watch - each book is quite different, or will they depart from the books? Also the Dark Tower companion TV series to the movie is due too and is supposed to link into the movie series (assuming other movies will be made after this first one).

The Mist TV series has potential to tell quite a lot of stories from various pockets of survivors and explore the origin of the Mist and what creatures it contains, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Willir · 11 May 2017 at 14:31

Yeah there has been many TV series over the years and many of them not very good, 11.22.63 is the best I have seen in recent years.

Hopefully the Bill Hodges trilogy will be good, looking forward to that.

I created a thread earlier dedicated to King adaptations if you wish to give it a gander.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-return-of-the-king.18779415/

roge8014 · 11 May 2017 at 15:00

Willir said:
I created a thread earlier dedicated to King adaptations if you wish to give it a gander.

Cheers - will do!

neoboy · 11 May 2017 at 15:47

Keep an eye on this and see how it pans out.

Moonpie2 · 12 May 2017 at 04:06

Looks like they've messed with it?

Loved the movie (my first ever Blu-Ray

) but this seems to have the mist making people loopy instead of there just being monsters.
Still... I'll give it a whirl !!

Freakbro · 21 Jun 2017 at 09:13

This premieres in the US tomorrow night, not sure when it's out in the UK

Moonpie2 · 23 Jun 2017 at 16:38

There's no plot spoilers here, only my opinion on whether the show is good or bad, but I'll pop it into spoiler tags anyway to be on the safe side...

Well, I just struggled through the first 20 minutes of the worst TV and characters I've seen in a LONG time.
Then turned it off. Maybe it got better... I'll never know

The whole thing stinks of special *********, touchy feely social commentary, and that's just not what I'm looking for.
A pity, I loved the movie and was looking for something new to watch.

Ho hum.....

maddog · 23 Jun 2017 at 18:43

White cops being nasty to black guy check
White jocks being nasty to homosexual check
White jocks involed in rape culture check

Yawn
Just awful liberal trash

darkgen · 23 Jun 2017 at 19:23

Moonpie2 said:
There's no plot spoilers here, only my opinion on whether the show is good or bad, but I'll pop it into spoiler tags anyway to be on the safe side...

Well, I just struggled through the first 20 minutes of the worst TV and characters I've seen in a LONG time.
Then turned it off. Maybe it got better... I'll never know

The whole thing stinks of special *********, touchy feely social commentary, and that's just not what I'm looking for.
A pity, I loved the movie and was looking for something new to watch.

Ho hum.....

Yowsers. Think I'll skip it. Thought the film was brilliant; even so as Halfe-life was also based from the original Stephen King novella.