First look at the upcoming TV adaptation of Stephen King's smoggy story.
Stephen King's The Mist has previously been filmed for the big screen by Frank Darabont in 2008, and now it comes to living rooms courtesy of a new series from Spike TV. The single location premise of the original story has been ditched for this reboot, opening up the drama to cover various locations in a small town. The series debuts in the US on June 22nd.
The official synopsis reads:
Based on a story by Stephen King, THE MIST has been re-imagined for television by Executive Producer and Writer Christian Torpe and produced for Spike by TWC-Dimension Television. Spike’s THE MIST centers around a small town family that is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other. Family, friends and adversaries become strange bedfellows, battling the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain morality and sanity as the rules of society break down.