I’ve watched the Mist trailer quite a few times now, because it’s based on my favorite Stephen King short story and that’s how I roll, and one thing I meant to comment on but didn’t was how wonderful Andre Braugher is as the supermarket’s main Flat Earther, Brent Norton. In the story, Norton’s one of those trademark King “man, I can’t WAIT until he gets eaten” infuriating know-it-all types, which is a blast. But Braugher seems to be playing it extremely cool, as well he should: Norton has to be believable as a character to whom other people would rally. If his approach to the mist is tantamount to sticking his fingers in his ears and chanting “la la la la not listening to you not listening to you,” the conflict evaporates. He needs to be persuasive. I know this is just based on the trailer, but so far I’d follow Braugher’s unflappable Norton before Tom Jane’s tough-guy David Drayton.
