The Dark Tower poster being worked on by David Drayton was actually painted by Drew Struzan, an artist famous for his movie posters.Coincidentally, Stephen King himself once had a cameo as a pharmacist in the film adaptation of his novel Thinner. The pharmacy next to the Food House store is called “King’s Pharmacy”, most likely a reference to author Stephen King.The 2-disc DVD release contains Darabont’s black and white version on the second disc. Director Frank Darabont originally wanted the film shown in black and white.Frank Darabont agreed to make the film with Dimension only under the condition that no matter what, they wouldn’t change the scripted ending.Later in real life, Jane directed the comicbook movie Dark Country which starred Ron Perlman, the star of the movie version of Hellboy When the group is in the next-door pharmacy, David (Thomas Jane) can be seen taking a comic book as promised for his son – an issue of “Hellboy”.If you look carefully, you can clearly see that all the books on the shelf are written by Stephen King. During an action scene in the film, a man runs into a wire rotating-book shelf in the grocery store.This is also a reference made to Randall Flagg although in a different book. That same line, “My life for you,” is used by Trashcan in The Stand movie as well as the book. (Walter o’Dim made his first appearance in several earlier King novels, one the first being The Eyes of the Dragon, under the alias Randall Flagg, and the line is spoken there as well.) The Mist is one of the first short stories to refer to cross reference the Dark Tower. This has been said by a number of villainous characters in the Dark Tower books, who had sworn allegiance to Walter o’Dim, one of the major antagonists. This is the line “My life for you,” spoken by Mrs.
The picture he’s drawing is a design from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series of the gunslinger Roland. In the opening shot of the film, David is painting in his room.There was an “A” and a “B” unit, which cut down on production time.
This camera crew is able to move fast, due to the hectic TV production schedule. To help save time on the tight schedule, the producers and director Frank Darabont hired the camera crew from The Shield, to shoot the film.He played David Drayton in an audio version of the story. This isn’t William Sadler’s first time with The Mist.Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden