'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'The Green Mile' director Frank Darabont has announced that he is bringing another Stephen King story to the big screen.
Variety reports that Darabont will direct his own adaptation of King's novella 'The Mist'.
Commenting, Darabont said: "It's a project Stephen King and I have been talking about doing for almost 20 years now. In fact, it almost was my first directing project many years ago, but I went classy and did 'The Shawshank Redemption' instead. It's time to get down and dirty and make a nasty little character-driven gut-punch horror movie."
'The Mist' was published in 1985 as part of King's collection of short stories 'Skeleton Crew'; it tells the story of a killer mist which engulfs a small town, forcing the locals to hide out in a supermarket.
The plan is for production to begin in the spring.
