'I sat down and wrote a very, very long email about what I proposed to change and why I wanted to do it, and how I thought it spoke to something very contemporary,' Torpe recently told the CinemaBlend website.

So the showrunner, feeling the flutter of a few butterflies, went back to the man from Bangor, Maine, to get a proper blessing to proceed. And at the same time we wanted to be incredibly respectful to the source material.' 'In order to turn it into a show, we had to change a lot of things. 'The novel is 180 pages and it takes place over a very short period of time in a supermarket,' says Torpe. By necessity, his is a looser retelling, with new storylines and characters, set in a shopping mall, a church and more. The man behind the curtain this time is Danish writer/filmmaker Christian Torpe, who freely admits he felt the weight of adapting and expanding the work of one of the most famous authors in the world into 10 hour-long episodes. Like the seasons, everything King does comes around again, and now The Mist has been reimagined for television by Spike TV in the United States, where it premiered in June to respectable cable ratings. In 2007, Hollywood delivered a superlative, gut-wrenching film, adapted and directed by Frank Darabont, who also helmed another box-office hit from King's canon, The Green Mile (1999), and went on to bring The Walking Dead to television in 2010. It first appeared as a horror novella in King's 1980 collection of short fiction, Skeleton Crew. One of the very best of these pressure cookers is The Mist, which sees a gaggle of townsfolk trapped in a supermarket when an eerie fog full of bloodthirsty creatures engulfs their small Maine town. Whether it's a family in a haunted hotel in The Shining or an entire town beset by alien technology in Under the Dome, it's only a matter of time until sanity goes the way of the dodo. In print, one of his favourite devices is to trap people together, cut off any avenue of escape – then watch them go batty and gradually turn on one another as social niceties evaporate and a brutal new pecking order emerges. S tephen King probably doesn't even break a sweat as he crafts interdimensional monsters with razor fangs, flesh-rending tentacles and odious people-munching habits – but at the end of the day, his cautionary tales teach us that human nature is the thing we should fear the most.

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