The featurettes give a better look at the characters on the Spike series as well as tease the scary atmosphere surrounding Bridgeville.
- Jun 13, 2017
AceShowbiz - Ahead of its premiere, "The Mist" has released new featurettes to give a better look at the characters on the Spike series as well as tease the eerie atmosphere surrounding Bridgeville. Based on a story by Stephen King, the series centers around a small town family where an eerie mist mysteriously rolls in amid a brutal crime.
The first featurette, titled "Welcome to Bridgville", offers more insights into the residents of the city and their stories. "The story plays up the small town feeling. It's a very King thing to do, everybody knowing everyone's business. It's the pressure cooker. A small town feel gives you that," says creator/showrunner Christian Torpe.
Alyssa Sutherland previews her character, Eve Copeland, who is Kevin Copeland's (Morgan Spector) wife, a protective mother and someone who has a dark past. Kevin, meanwhile, is described as someone as "a man whose life revolves around his wife and daughter." Their daughter, Alex, is depicted as "a very ordinary 16 year old." According to Gus Birney, who plays the character, so much of what happens to Alex will later change who she is.
Darren Pettie also introduces his character, Connor Heisel, an alpha male-like Bridgville chief of police. Luke Cosgrove, who plays Connor's son Jay, says that being a son of a sheriff definitely gives Jay a good amount of burden and pressure.
Also introduced in the eerie featurette is Nathalie Raven, a character played by Frances Conroy. "Nathalie is a very interesting person. She's very in touch with nature and some very strange things start happening," Frances explains, followed with a scene where a bunch of frogs begin mysteriously coming up from a lake.
"I have no idea who I am. We start off with him in these fatigues. We assume he's military but he doesn't actually know that," Okezie Morro speaks of his character, Bryan Hunt, who seemingly loses memory due to the mist. There are also Danica Curcic's Mia Lambert, "a woman on the run," and the town misfit Adrian Garff, played by Russell Posner.
Titled "Meet Kevin Copeland", the second featurette highlights Kevin Copeland. He is "a former journalist who is now a children book author," Morgan says. "He really places his family and those two women at the center of his life. It's possible to sacrifice so much of yourself that you genuinely lose yourself."
"There isn't anything he wouldn't give to get to them, I think. And probably he'll have to find that out," he continues.
Based on King's horror novella published back in 1980, "The Mist" centers around a small town family that is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout, an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world and, in some cases, each other. Family, friends and adversaries become strange bedfellows, battling the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain morality and sanity as the rules of society break down.
"The Mist" is slated to premiere on June 22 at 10 P.M on Spike.
