The Fog (2005 film)

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The Fog
Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Produced by John Carpenter, David Foster, Debra Hill
Written by Cooper Layne (screenplay)
John Carpenter, Debra Hill (1980 screenplay)
Starring Tom Welling
Maggie Grace
Selma Blair
DeRay Davis
Kenneth Welsh
Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography Nathan Hope, Ian Seabrook (underwater)
Editing by Dennis Virkler
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) October 14, 2005
Running time 100 min.
Language English
Budget $18,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

The Fog is a 2005 horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright. It is a remake of John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), but with more of a "teen horror film" angle. The original music score is composed by Graeme Revell. The ghosts of the past come back to Antonio Bay and Elizabeth finds out that she had a romance with one of the ghosts in 1871.

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[edit] Main cast

[edit] Reception

The film was poorly received by critics and movie fans, citing poor acting, shallow and predictable plot and lack of horror. To date the film has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 5%[1].

[edit] Trivia

  • During early development, Julia Stiles expressed interest in the role of Elizabeth. The screenplay was subsequently tailored, the character matured, and the role expanded. When Stiles did not come aboard, Maggie Grace was immediately cast, and the character of Elizabeth was rewritten to be younger and more innocent than in previous drafts.
  • The film was green lit by Revolution Studios before the script was written.
  • One of the films producers, Debra Hill, died shortly before filming began.
  • Before Tom Welling was cast, actors considered for Nick Castle included David Boreanaz, Jesse Metcalfe, Matthew Davis, Henry Cavill, Adam Garcia, Michael Cassidy, Oliver Hudson, and Peter Facinelli. Matthew Fox and Benjamin McKenzie were also considered for the role and met with the director, but due to conflicting television schedules they did not read for producers.
  • Maggie Grace beat Emilie de Ravin, her Lost (2004) co-star, for the role of Elizabeth.
  • When the remake was announced, rumors circulated the Internet that Charisma Carpenter had been cast as Stevie Wayne and Jessica Biel as Elizabeth. Later reports stated Carpenter was deemed 'too old' for Stevie Wayne and Biel simply did not want to do any more horror films. Similarly, reliable websites announced that Chris Isaak had signed on to play Nick Castle, which was completely untrue as the character was being rewritten to be in his mid-twenties.
  • Selma Blair did almost all of her own stunt work for the film, and spent 12 hours in a water tank (with only short surface breaks) for two straight days to shoot her underwater scenes.
  • Before DeRay Davis auditioned and blew producers away, actors considered for Brett Spooner included Wilmer Valderrama, Eric Christian Olsen, Kenan Thompson, John Cho, Dominic Monaghan and Jon Heder.
  • Tom Welling had three weeks left on Smallville (2005) season 4 when he began shooting The Fog (2005). Selma Blair often joked that the director kept two cameras running during his scenes - one for The Fog, and one for Smallville.
  • Tom Welling's character, Nick Castle, is named after the actor who played Michael Myers in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).

[edit] Deaths

  • Brandi & Mandi - Stabbed then thrown through a window.
  • Sean - Stabbed in the eye, then had both eyes gouged out & sewn up.
  • Machen - Dragged into the ocean by the ghosts ship
  • Aunt Connie - Death by corrosion.
  • Kathy Williams - Pulled through a window
  • Father Malone - Stabbed through the chest, back and neck by shards of glass.
  • Tom Malone - Dragged through town and set on fire

[edit] External links

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