History Trivia / TheMist

* CreatorApprovedAdaptation: Creator/StephenKing preferred [[spoiler: the significantly bleaker ending of the film.]]

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Marcia Gay Harden is everything Mrs. Carmody is not.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original draft included some more details about the setting that was left out. Most noticeable was that there was supposed to be a scene that shows the Arrowhead Project going wrong.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Videogame/TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]], without his Force powers for some reason, is involved in a secret military project, and ThePunisher gets trapped in the store with him.
** And the [[Series/DoctorWho Dream Lord]] is Ollie.
** [[Series/{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin's mom Esther]] is [[BadassGrandma Irene Reppler]].
** [[Film/AmericanPie The Shermanator]] gets mauled to death by a tentacle monster.
** [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit F.B.I. Agent Dana Lewis]] is the crazy religious zealot Mrs. Carmody
** Bit of RetroactiveRecognition - [[Series/TheWalkingDead Carol, Dale and Andrea]] are the lady who goes to find her children, Dan Miller (the older man who is the first to warn everybody about the creatures in the mist) and Amanda Dunfries (the schoolteacher) respectively.
** Not to mention [[Series/TheWalkingDead Morales]], who plays Morales.
** [[Series/{{Smallville}} Davis Bloome]] is one of the soldiers.
** Dobby from ''Film/HarryPotter'' plays a store clerk who turns out to be a marksman.
** [[Film/IronMan3 President Ellis]]/[[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Heywood]]/[[Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney The Grim Reaper]]/[[Film/DieHard2 Col. Stuart]] as Jim. (Bill Sadler may be one of the most famous Hey-It's-That-Guys in film and TV history; in a [kind-of] HilariousInHindsight moment, he played the voice of main character David Drayton in the mid-'80s ZBS Foundation audio-drama adaptation of ''The Mist''!)

** [[Film/IronMan3 President Ellis]]/[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Heywood]]/[[Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney The Grim Reaper]]/[[Film/DieHard2 Col. Stuart]] as Jim. (Bill Sadler may be one of the most famous Hey-It's-That-Guys in film and TV history; in a [kind-of] HilariousInHindsight moment, he played the voice of main character David Drayton in the mid-'80s ZBS Foundation audio-drama adaptation of ''The Mist''!)

** [[ThePunisher2004 The Punisher]] is an artist who promises to protect his son from the monsters in the Mist.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Videogame/TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]] is involved in a secret military project, and ThePunisher gets trapped in the store with him.

* King first thought up this story after having actually witnessed a storm that bad while on vacation. He went to the grocery store for some more emergency supplies, and while he was standing the (very long) checkout line, he randomly pictured something like a pterodactyl flying over all the customers.
* A lot of key parts were omitted from the original script:
** The failed experiment that summoned the mist.
** Brent's rationalization on why he doesn't believe David, the mechanics or Ollie
** Carmodie's followers are already in the process of sacrificing people
* In 1986, the story was adapted by ZBS Productions as a full-cast radio-style drama on audiocassette with 3-D sound. Among the cast was William Sadler (who played Jim in the movie) as David Drayton, and Dann Florek as Ollie Weeks.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original draft included some more details about the setting that was left out. Most noticeable was that there was suppose to be a scene that shows the Arrowhead Project going wrong.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]] is involved in a secret military project, and ThePunisher gets trapped in the store with him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original draft detailed some more details about the setting that was left out. Most noticeable was that there was suppose to be a scene that shows the Arrowhead Project going wrong.

** [[{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin's mom Esther]] is [[BadassGrandma Irene Reppler]].
** [[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit F.B.I. Agent Dana Lewis]] is the crazy religious zealot Mrs. Carmody
** Bit of RetroactiveRecognition - [[TheWalkingDead Carol, Dale and Andrea]] are the lady who goes to find her children, Dan Miller (the older man who is the first to warn everybody about the creatures in the mist) and Amanda Dunfries (the schoolteacher) respectively.

* In 1986, the story was adapted by ZBS Productions as a full-cast radio-style drama on audiocassette with 3-D sound. Among the cast was WilliamSadler (who played Jim in the movie) as David Drayton, and Dann Florek as Ollie Weeks.

** Carmodie's followers are already in the process of sacrificing people

** Not to mention [[TheWalkingDead Morales]], who plays Morales.

** Bit of RetroactiveRecognition - [[TheWalkingDead Carol, Dale and Andrea]] are the lady who goes to find her children, Dan Miller (the man who warns everybody about the creatures in the mist) and Amanda Dunfries (the schoolteacher) respectively.

** Bit of RetroactiveRecognition - [[TheWalkingDead Dale and Andrea]] are Dan Miller (the man who warns everybody about the creatures in the mist) and Amanda Dunfries (the schoolteacher) respectively.

* King first thought up this story after having actually witnessed a storm that bad while on vacation. He went to the grocery store for some more emergency supplies, and while he was standing the (very long) checkout line, he randomly pictured something like a pterodactyl flying over all the customers.