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Mike Flanagan set to remake The Mist

Doesn't really feel like it needs a new adaptation.

Flanagan has done a good job with King's work from what I've seen and clearly he's a big fan. But it is kind of odd that he has adapted or will be adapting so many of King's stories. I know he's got the rights to The Dark Tower too.
 
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Rentahamster said:
Da fuck, the movie isn't even that old yet :messenger_tears_of_joy:
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Yeah. It will be somewhere over 20 years between the projects. Doesn't seem that long. But it feels like it captured a completely different era when The Thing From Another World (1951) was remade into John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), despite only being 31 years apart.

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Loved the original story only to hate what they did for The Mist. Just felt too cheap and cheesy for what it had the potential to be. I'd love for them to take another try on it.
 
If anybody was going to remake The Mist 2007, which is still great and doesn't need a remake, Flanagan can do it. Haven't seen anything from him I haven't liked.

Still, this has me scratching my head.
 
Whatever about the movie. Wasn't there a tv series recently?

And why is he doing all these other things when he should be concentrating on The Dark Tower?
 
EviLore said:
but I guess we'll just remake every movie in 20 year intervals until the wheels fall off.
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As well as the 2017 TV Series (Never saw it so can't say if it's good)

21st century culture is boring me. Constantly just recycling the same franchises from the 80s 90s and early 00s.

Compare that to the actual 80s and 90s where we were awash with fresh ideas and new a franchise every five minutes. Those were the decades of creativity. Now we're in the era of comfort and nostalgia. That's how it feels to me anyway.
 
Not sure how I feel about this

I'm super tired of remakes and the original movie and how it ended was just perfect

I read the novella too and loved it

I just wish he would work on that Dark Tower live action adaptation he's been talking about
 
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If he does it, my guess is it won't be the supermarket folks, but others in town. Or the scientists/soldiers at the base.

And, given some of Flanagans more recent projects, it will start about a week before "the event" and be about a bunch of tortured soul folks struggling with personal demons and the last scene is someone pushing the "ON" button to whatever device does it. And a lot of Catholic imagery, lots and lots :P
 
John Bilbo said:
I don't think Flanagan can do The Dark Tower. I think The Dark Tower needs someone exceptional to adapt it like Lynch or Jodorowsky.
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There is no director that can do the Dark Tower, it is an unfilmable work. To vast and sprawling, intricately connected to a ton of King's other works, there's just no way it translates to film.



On topic, I really like Darabont's take on The Mist, but the cgi has aged like milk.
 
Maybe one of the only movies where the ending is different than the book and also better.

Whatever, I'll watch this junk. I recently listened to the audiobook read by Will Patton and it was awesome.
 
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He's a great director but he needs to focus on other SK properties instead of remaking the good ones we already have.

His Carrie miniseries releases this year, and now this? Just adapt The Dark Tower already :messenger_loudly_crying:
 
Feels too soon. But at the same time respect to Mike, he seems to love King's material. He's done some good work too and his style suits perfectly. I admire that he is doing things he seems ot really like. Hopefully he finishes Dark Tower and does it justice.

Must be nice to have the street cred and respect to take on what would be considered passion projects at this stage.
 
Still very surprised people liked that ending so much.

Honestly I thought it was pretty weak, although frankly the source material wasn't all that in the first place.

But yeah, most pointless remake ever. Someone should take on James Herbert's The Fog, or The Dark -both of which predate King's tale and are way more memorable.
 
EviLore said:
Yeah. It will be somewhere over 20 years between the projects. Doesn't seem that long. But it feels like it captured a completely different era when The Thing From Another World (1951) was remade into John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), despite only being 31 years apart.

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Carpenter's The Thing gets a pass because his adaptation actually followed the source material. The Thing from Another Planet only scarcely resembles the original novel. It's equivalent to somebody making a new "World War Z" film that captures the tone and message of the book after Brad Pitt's abortive attempt. The Mist has a good film adaptation and had already had a TV show. Another entry so soon feels like boomer mining.
 
I'm not opposed to a remake so soon, as long as it actually brings something new to the table.

Most remakes and reboots these days are objectively worse than their predecessors (looking at you, Total Recall), but if it can actually present a new or better take than the previous version, I'm all for it. Hope this turns into one of those instances, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

It's one of the reasons that I think reboots work better as TV shows than movies, because you're taking something that's beloved and adding depth to it. Stuff like Cobra Kai, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or The Sarah Connor Chronicles are all good examples where the shows add to the movie's legacy rather than take from it. I expect the new Harry Potter series will do the same. I'd be much more excited about a TV adaptation (or continuation) of The Mist than this movie reboot.
 
I hope they come up with a new story and just go all out crazy and different; really experiment with it. It's a mist containing any crazy creatures you can think of, go wild!
 
DKehoe said:
Doesn't really feel like it needs a new adaptation.

Flanagan has done a good job with King's work from what I've seen and clearly he's a big fan. But it is kind of odd that he has adapted or will be adapting so many of King's stories. I know he's got the rights to The Dark Tower too.
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Horror has for sure been on a roll since Hereditary and I've been enjoying it. Hell, I didn't realize how many of his works I've seen and he's been on roll since directing Ouija Origin of Evil - which is such an improvement over the original it's my benchmark for sequels.
 
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I thought the cosmic horror monsters outside were cool. Not the bats. The religious crazy person trope feels overdone at this point and I'd like to see something else driving the story. They could have a purple-haired person creating a woke cult instead, if they really need that storyline.

Otherwise going pure cosmic horror would be neat. More Lovecraft, less King.
 
Totally unnecessary. Mike Flanagan should do some of Kings more unknown work, like Duma Key. He is also starting to wear thin with too many projects all feeling the same.
 
Flannagan is highly talented...

But I feel hes really just signing up to anything these days.

As a man who basically would have had a blank cheque for any project he wants I kind of hope he chills a bit and focus on one thing
 
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