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According to MTV’s Movie Blog, Tom Hanks won’t be playing Guy Montag for Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 after all. For a film that has been floating the rocky studio seas since 1994, this is another incredible set back.

Now that Mark Romanek is off the project, Uni is stalking directors left and right.

Set in a small town, the film is populated by cardboard cutouts of your standard archetypes: the religious fundamentalist, the haughty fella from the city (black, natch), the reckless small-town simpleton, etc. etc.

Whether you’re trapped in a store with monsters outside, or trapped in a theater with 300 of your closest friends watching a horror flick, what better way to make things more fun than have a few drinks?

Despite the fact that Darabont has made two films based on King novels, The Mist seems like a very unusual choice for him.

If anyone spoils the ending for me before I see this film I will slay you!

With Frank Darabont’s film version of Stephen Kings The Mist set to roll into theaters soon, plans are already spinning in the Green Mile director’s head about his next project.

When we met up with Frank Darabont after a party at the Keating Hotel in San Diego this past summer, we spoke about a few things. We spoke about his upcoming film The Mist, with our friend Thomas Jane, and also about Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. He sounded just as excited for it, as he did for his own film. However, even then he had something to say about writing credit.

Thanks to a slue of atrocious Oscar wannabe’s this year, I have been relegated to looking forward to films that would normally be well off my radar (read: anything meant to frighten, scare or terrify audiences). One film in particular that has begun to sneak up on my Fall Want List is The Mist, starring Thomas Jane, Andre Brougher and Marcia Gay Harden.

Any time we get to show some love to our good friend Thomas Jane on the site, it’s a good day. While we were galavanting around the streets of San Diego at Comic Con this year, Tom was gracious enough to hang out here and there. We also had the pleasure of meeting up with Frank Darabont, who is a truly nice guy and the director of The Mist, which just so happens to star Thomas Jane. And guess what, we’ve got a look at the latest trailer for the flick that is based on a novel by Stephen King. Get your plastic undies folks, this one looks creepy.