QAre there any other versions of "The Mist"?
A"The Mist" was also adapted into a radio play/drama called "The Mist in 3-D Sound", originally released on cassette tape in 1984 and later released on CD. William Sadler, who played Jim in the movie, is the voice of David Drayton. The radio play actually has a different and more ambiguous ending than the movie or the novella. After the large creature passes overhead, Irene (only known as Miss Reppler in the play) asks David to turn on the radio which he gets nothing but static. In contrast to the novella where David gets upset at himself for not thinking of trying the radio, he just says "All right" and turns it on. Irene also makes a comment about an Exit 13 where there used to be a Howard Johnson's, but they do not stop as they do in the novella where David is writing the story. The play then cuts a different scene where Amanda and David overhear someone say "Hartford" over the radio, Amanda and David confirm that that's what they heard, and the play ends with David's Scout passing by.
QWhere did the creatures come from?
AAlthough not directly stated in the movie, it is implied that the creatures entered through an inter-dimensional rift as a result of Project Arrowhead, a secret scientific project being carried out on a nearby military base. An early draft of the script written by Frank Darabont included a prologue set in the base's laboratory, providing a reasonably good idea of what the Arrowhead Project was supposed to have been and what went wrong. In the prologue, a number of civilian scientists, computer technicians, and Army personnel gather around a large object which resembles an old-fashioned diving helmet: a metal tank with thick glass windows. One of the scientists expresses some concern about running an experiment in the middle of a thunderstorm. His superior tells him to relax and orders that the device be turned on. When the machine is activated, a small point of white light (described as looking like a flashlight shining through a keyhole) appears inside the tank. Moments later, however, lightning strikes the base's electrical generator. The point of light begins to get larger and brighter. One of the scientists calls for the machine to be turned off, but a technician tells him "we can't; we're drawing [the power] right out of the sky." The scientists stand helplessly by as the portal inside the tank gets wider and wider and a white mist begins to fill the tank. Something "slithery" is then glimpsed moving inside the tank. A colonel asks the scientists how thick the glass is in the tank's windows. The scientist, sounding none too confident, tells him that it can withstand up to forty times the pressure of our own atmosphere. Apparently that isn't strong enough, because the windows of the tank begin to crack and finally shatter outwards, releasing the mist into the laboratory.
QWhat is 'The Mist' about?
AThe story is told after the fact by movie poster illustrator David Drayton (Thomas Jane). Following a violent thunderstorm in which his house loses power and trees smash through his studio window and his boathouse, he and his eight-year-old son Billy (Nathan Gamble), along with neighbor Brent Norton (Andre Braugher), head into town for supplies. While they are in the store with dozens of other shoppers also looking for supplies, a siren goes off and a strange white mist settles over the town. Soon, the shoppers learn that the mist contains dangerous, alien creatures and that they must band together to keep themselves safe...until it becomes apparent that there may be a greater danger inside the store than out.
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