<P> In the opening shot, David is drawing in his room . The drawing is based on Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and was painted by film poster designer Drew Struzan . Darabont also included re-productions of Struzan's posters and illustrations for The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth . Struzan would go on to produce a poster for The Mist, but this image was not used in the film's marketing campaign . </P> <P> Darabont collaborated with the production designer to create a mix of eras to avoid appearing as a period piece but also not looking so contemporary . Cell phones were used by characters in The Mist, but the military police in the film did not dress in modern attire . While an MP also drove an old Jeep instead of a Humvee, other cars seen in the film are modern models . The city police cars in the beginning of the film are a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice and a 1988 Ford LTD Crown Victoria, cars that were standard police vehicles in the late 1980s but have not been used in force since the late 1990s . </P> <P> Over a hundred extras from Shreveport, Louisiana were included in The Mist . Unlike conventional application of extras in the background of a film, sixty of the hundred extras were interwoven with the film's ensemble cast . Additional elements giving the film a local flavor include the prominence of local Louisiana brands such as Zapp's potato chips . Exterior shots of the house at the beginning were in Shreveport . Exterior shots of the supermarket were in Vivian, Louisiana . Also, if looked closely at, the shields on the side of the passing firetrucks early in the film identify them as part of the Caddo Parish fire department . This is possibly a mistake as the film is allegedly set in Maine . </P> <P> Darabont chose to use music to minimal effect in The Mist in order to capture the "heavier feel" of the darker ending he had written to replace the one from the novella . The director explained, "Sometimes movie music feels false . I've always felt that silent can be scarier than loud, a whisper more frightening than a bang, and we wanted to create a balance . We kept music to a minimum to keep that vérité, documentary feel ." Darabont chose to overlay the song "The Host of Seraphim" by the band Dead Can Dance, a spiritual piece characterized by wailing and chanting . As a fan of Dead Can Dance, Darabont thought that the song played "as a requiem mass for the human race ." The original score was composed by Academy Award - nominated composer Mark Isham . </P>

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