Stephen King's 'The Mist' to be the focus of a television series
"The Mist", published in 1985 will be adapted to the small screen by Dimension Television from The Weinstein Company. Since the 1970s, the master horror and suspense writer has become an important source of original storylines, supplying endless plots for cinema.
Thirty years after publication, "The Mist" will be transformed and adapted to American television. Already the subject of a big-screen picture by Frank Darabont, the director of two other King novels ("The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Line"), the novel is based on a couple dozen people that take refuge in a supermarket to protect themselves from strange creatures that have appeared during a mysterious mist.
"The Mist" is far from being the first television series based on a Stephen King novel. Since 1979, around 20 fictional adaptations (television films, series, and mini-series) more or less based on his storylines have been brought to life in front of the camera.
It
The adaptation of "It" was released in 1990 on ABC in the form of a two-part telefilm. The first chapter focuses on seven children from Derry, a small town in Maine, haunted by an evil entity that is able to embody the fears of each of his victims. The following chapter follows the now-grown members of "the losers club". Following a new wave of murders in their hometown, they return to fight off the creature and get rid of him for good. A similar two-part structure will most probably also be used for the movie adaptation of the novel.
The Stand
Published for the first time in 1978, "The Stand" describes a post-apocalyptic world in which good and evil confront each other after a virus has all but wiped-out the world's population. The fantasy horror story was adopted by ABC for a mini-series in four episodes revealed in the spring of 1994. Over 30 million television viewers became fans of the story that should hit both cinemas and television on Showtime sometime soon.
Dead Zone
The first time Stephen King's work was transformed into a classic television series was in 2002. The result is 80 episodes divided into six seasons and broadcast until 2007 on the USA television network. Anthony Michael Hall plays the role of Johnny, a man who becomes a medium following six years in a coma and who uses his gift to help the police.
Under the Dome
Just recently cancelled by CBS after its third season, this summer series produced by Steven Spielberg tells the story of the inhabitants of Chester's Mill, suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by a dome that covers and surrounds their city. Stephen King actively participated in writing the script that distanced itself somewhat from his two-book novel published in 2009.
11/22/63
To discover the televised version of this fantasy novel, fans will need to wait until 2016. The Hulu streaming service will replay the incredible story of Jake Epping, a professor that travels in time. Finding himself back in September of 1958, he decides to stop the assassination of JFK that will take place five years later. His mission is put in danger by Lee Harvey Oswald and a woman from the 1960s with whom he falls in love. James Franco is set to play the part.
