Don’t expect a faithful adaptation of the horror master’s 1980 novella — this upcoming TV show expands to the universe outside the trapped shoppers.
Noted horror author Stephen King can make anything scary. A car. A dog. A clown. A prom queen. And in « The Mist, » his 1980 novella, a creepy fog that rolls in on a bunch of Mainers innocently shopping for groceries.
Spike TV is making a series based on « The Mist, » and the first trailer was released on Tuesday. The show’s got the job of stretching out a novella into a week-by-week series, so naturally it has to expand outside the grocery store, examining the lives of others affected by the mysterious mist.
