Mike Flanagan adaption of The Mist to envelop sleepy Maine town

The film will be the next Stephen King adaptation from the director.

By Drew Gillis  |  February 10, 2026 | 4:12pm
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Mike Flanagan adaption of The Mist to envelop sleepy Maine town

Who would have guessed that Stephen King’s The Mist would turn into a story we adapt every ten years? After a feature film version in 2007 and a TV series on Spike in 2017, which this site once called “jarringly nonsensical,” another version of The Mist is on the horizon from frequent King collaborator Mike Flanagan. This is per Deadline, which reports that Flanagan will write, direct, and produce the adaptation at Warner Bros. 

King published The Mist in 1980 as a novella within the Dark Forces anthology. It follows the people of Bridgeton, Maine as a thick mist full of Lovecraftian creatures surrounds the town and wreaks havoc. This story has generally taken place largely inside a grocery store, though the 2017 series introduced a few more locations. (It had ten episodes to fill with Mist, after all.)

The Mist continues a streak of collaborations between King and Flanagan, who most recently worked together to make The Life Of Chuck, which was based on a 2020 novella from the author. Flanagan has previously directed adaptations of Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, and is set to release a television adaptation of Carrie on Prime Video; that last one doesn’t have a confirmed release date yet but we could reasonably expect it sometime this year.

 
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