2006/10/24 eiga.comのニュース&噂のページで、映画「The Mist」の情報が掲載された。
以下、同サイトからの引用。
スティーブン・キングの「霧」をフランク・ダラボン監督が映画化
スティーブン・キングの中編「霧」を、フランク・ダラボン監督が映画化することが明らかになった。ダラボン監督といえば、「ショーシャンクの空に」や「グリーンマイル」など、キング原作のハートウォーミングな物語を映画化してきたが、「霧」は奇怪な霧に閉じこめられた人々の動揺と冒険を描くホラーである。ダラボン監督が米バラエティ紙に語ったところによると、もともとは「霧」で監督デビューをするつもりだったが、上品な「ショーシャンクの空に」を先に撮ることにしたのだという。「今回は、観客の内蔵(原文のママ/内臓)をえぐるような、キャラクター中心のダーティーなホラー映画にするつもりだ」と意気込みを語った。来春クランクインの予定で、トーマス・ジェーン(「パニッシャー」「ドリームキャッチャー」)が出演交渉中であるという。
ここに来て、フランク・ダラボンは、米バラエティ誌、MTV等複数のメディアの「霧」に関するインタビューに答えているようである。
今度こそは何とか映画化まで漕ぎ着けて欲しいものである。
今回の記事のニュース・ソースはおそらくココ。
'Mist' envelops Dimension
Darabont's in King's domain
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Dimension Films will turn Stephen King novella "The Mist" into a horror film, which Frank Darabont will direct from his own script.
Thomas Jane is in talks to be part of the ensemble cast.
Darabont, whose biggest hits were the King adaptations "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile," has long been enshrouded in "The Mist."
King entrusted the rights to him several years ago, when Darabont had a first-look deal at Paramount. Darabont is in the final stages of reclaiming rights to his script.
"It's a project Stephen King and I have been talking about doing for almost 20 years now," Darabont said. "In fact, it almost was my first directing project many years ago, but I went classy and did "The Shawshank Redemption" instead. It's time to get down and dirty and make a nasty little character-driven gut-punch horror movie."
Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein and production president Richard Saperstein have set a spring production start for the film, which Darabont will produce with Castle Rock's Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer. The latter steered "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile."
Published in 1985 as part of King's short story collection "Skeleton Crew," "The Mist" takes place in a small town where a thick mist engulfs the area, killing those caught in its darkness. Terrified survivors seek refuge in a supermarket, while a swarm of murderous critters tries to get in.
Weinstein cited that dual fright dynamic as his prime attraction to the project.
"I'm a fan of films like 'Saw,' 'Wolf Creek' and 'Hostel,' but when I started Dimension, Stephen King and his ability to create real character-based thrills in 'Misery,' 'Carrie' and 'The Shining' was an inspiration for the kind of films I wanted to make," Weinstein said. "This is a great opportunity to get one of those classic properties and to work with Frank, who handles Stephen's work so well."
Weinstein now has three films based on King fiction. Dimension has wrapped "1408," based on King's short story, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack starring. "Hostel" helmer Eli Roth is working on an adaptation of "Cell," King's bestseller about a cell phone signal that makes zombies of everyone gabbing on mobiles at a particular cataclysmic moment in time.
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