![]() ![]() And about four months went by and I would try things, and they would die, and uh, I'd crumple up pages, and the wastebasket was full of paper, and the desk was bare. And I couldn't seem to get anything else going. I'd written a very long novel called "The Stand," and I'd finished it. There was a market, it is an actual market in Bridgeton, Maine, where my wife and I lived at that time. KING: "The Mist"? (Laughs) I answer these questions and I always sound totally mad, barking mad. TAPPER: How did the idea of "The Mist" come to you? But organized religion gives me the creeps. I'm not a vampire type, when somebody shows me the cross or something like that. And I certainly don't have anything against churches per se. But I haven't been through the doors of the church, I don't think since my mother-in-law died. I certainly believe in God, and I meditate on a regular basis, and try to stay in touch with the God of my understanding. TAPPER: Religious characters don't fare very well in your books, I've noticed. But that's one of the things this kind of story's supposed to do is to help you deal with that a little bit. That changed the way we think about things and in a way, it's what my brother used to call "the blue car theory." You buy a blue car, you see blue cars everywhere.Īfter the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. But the fact is, that was simply uh, a great big old dent in the fender of the American psyche. ![]() ![]() But as far as 9/11 or the things that happened, I think that with a movie like "The Mist" people will mention that sort of resonance and they're going to conjure up 9/11. That's one of the things that I've always liked about horror fiction, and about fiction in the fantastic, is that it does have a resonance. And certainly we've seen this time and time again in our own lives, that as the situation worsens, in various parts of the world, the religious fanatics have a tendency to become more and more powerful. Because everybody's pretty well solemnly grounded, and nobody's worried about anything. Carmody, who's in the market, and to begin with she's sort of a figure of fun. In another part of the story, there's a religious zealot, Mrs. It's a place where you can take your real anxieties, and park them for a while, and not worry about them anymore.īut the story of "The Mist," in the background, there's this idea that the military has been fooling around with something that's too big for them, and has torn an actual hole in the fabric of reality, and these awful creatures from another dimension have come through. But anybody who's ever had a nightmare knows that every nightmare has a basis in actual anxiety. Because a story like "The Mist" is a nightmare. If you tell the truth, within the scope of a fantasy, people will hear those reverberations. It had been part of the scenery in a couple of shootings, and so I thought it seemed better to pull it than to leave it around. 11, I thought of that, and I thought, "Geez, I published that book around 1978." There's another one called "Rage," that I've withdrawn from publication, because it was about a school shooter. But the book ends with a passenger jet into hitting a skyscraper. ![]() STEPHEN KING: Keep in mind that I also wrote a book called "The Running Man" that was made into a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. They'll turn to whatever promises a solution." It is all so evocative of 9/11, and yet amazingly, the novella on which the film is based was first published in 1980. In one very pointed line in the film and the novella, a character says, "If you scare people badly enough, you'll get 'em to do anything. It focuses on the townspeople stuck in a supermarket, facing a new threat, their world having changed forever in an instant, turning on one another, disagreeing on how to deal with the threat. The latest "Stephen King" movie, which opens later this month, is "The Mist," about a small town in Maine enveloped by a dangerous fog. The following is a transcript of Jake Tapper's interview with Stephen King for "Nightline." The transcript has been slightly edited for clarity and narrative flow. Next week a film version, written and directed by Frank Darabont, hits theaters. In the book, an abnormal, supernatural mist takes over a small town in Maine, revealing vicious unworldly creatures. November 15, 2007— - "The Mist" is a novella written by Stephen King in 1980. ![]()
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