Ep. 189 The Mist (2007)
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What is the premise of The Mist (2007) movie?
Welcome everyone to Two Guys to the Dark Tower Game, a podcast where we discuss the characters and connections in the ever-expanding universe that revolves around Stephen King's Dark Tower. I'm Jay Russo. And I'm Sean McGurr. You can email us at twoguysdarktower at gmail.com. To support the show, spread the word with a podcast review on your favorite podcast app. And you can buy merch at store dot two guys to the darktower game dot com. In this episode, we'll cover the 2007 movie adaptation of The Mist. Let's start the show.
From the movie database. After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelopes a small main town, trapping David Drayton and his five year old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Is the loss of your sanity worse than the loss of your life? Uh interesting debate.
Interesting debate that we're not gonna have at this moment. Instead, we're gonna talk a little bit about the production history of this movie, Jay.
Also an interesting debate.
Tell me about the movie, Sean. This movie came out uh nineteen years ago, November twenty first, two thousand seven. It was a financial success, making around fifty seven million dollars on a budget of less than twenty million.
Did you say nineteen years ago?
Yeah, I did. Look at that. Look at that. None of the numbers could add up to nineteen, so I figured I'd work it in some way or another. Hmm. Fair. Um, this is a Frank Darebond joint, although he didn't call it a Frank Darebond joint. He just called it the Mist. Um, and directed and produced by Frank Derabont. It was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana. And I don't think that the grocery store that it was filmed at is still there anymore. I I think I read somewhere that it's been raised. So you can't go visit it while you're visiting lovely Shreveport. So don't make any special plans to go see the piggly wiggly where this was filmed.
Wow. It may be interesting to go to that store and like buy some uh octopus for dinner.
Um, I didn't realize this, but some people say that there's a superior version of this movie on DVD that is in black and white. So that might be an interesting way of viewing this movie. I know people have said that about Mad Max Fury Road that you can watch in black and white, it's pretty cool. Uh I'm not sure if it would work here for the mist, but some people swear by it.
I haven't seen the black and white version, so I don't have my own opinion, but I think one of the reasons why I've heard that people like it more is that it masks some of what feels like very dated computer graphics and special effects. Because if uh it by stripping the color out, it all becomes more cohesive. But that's just me secondhand opinioning there. Yeah.
Yeah, no, I could I could potentially see that, yeah.
There's another adaptation of this story, Sean, and it comes in the form of an audio drama, and that is the mist in three D sound. Ooh. This has been around almost as long as since the book was collected into Skeleton Crew. It's been available in probably just about every recording format, except maybe vinyl. It came out in cassette. Uh I bought it on C D. I have the A track. You have the A track? Nice. I I have one of those uh vinyl cylinders, I think, that Thomas Edison invented. That's my original version. And of course now you can very easily find it on YouTube. And that's what I did. I revisited it leading up to uh this podcast just to refresh my experience with it. Yeah. It's Fun, it's very loyal to the story, and it does use this experimental recording technique where they use microphones embedded inside human-shaped ears in like a mannequin head.
And that is the sole source of recording for all of the performance. The idea is that when you listen to the recording with headphones, you feel embedded into this 3D. to be space. Okay. I'd say there's a reason why that never really took off because it's it doesn't really work that well. I found it distracting rather than in uh in
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of The Mist (2007) movie?
0:12–5:52
2
How did the production history of The Mist influence its final form?
5:52–11:30
3
In what ways does the film adapt Stephen King’s novella?
11:30–17:42
4
Why is the movie’s ending considered controversial?
17:42–22:56
5
What are the hosts’ overall impressions and ratings of The Mist?
22:56–27:58
6
Which Dark Tower “thinnies” appear in the film?
27:58–32:55
7
What are the “yuckiest” moments that stood out to the hosts?
32:55–38:10
8
How do the hosts link The Mist to other worlds and future projects?
38:10–43:17