The Brilliant Fog Reference That Simultaneously Connects Stephen King’s Universe With Another Horror Cinema Masterpiece – Film News

We all remember Frank Darabont’s film for its ending, but the first act has a triple Easter egg that enchanted the audience.

When we entered the cinema in a now distant 2007 without having the slightest idea of ​​what was coming, many of us left devastated after seeing The Fog because of an ending that they would remember for the rest of their lives and that would occupy a good part of not the entirety—of the conversation about Frank Darabont’s film. However, the most attentive spectators were captivated by a detail far from the end of the film, located in its first act.

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Three-way reference

In the introduction scene of David Drayton, the protagonist of the story played by Thomas Jane, he appears in his studio painting a painting — and surrounded by other works — that serves as a double Easter egg by uniting the feature film with the work of Stephen King — author of the novel that adapts the production—and, at the same time, pays homage to one of the great artists linked to cinematographic posters of all time.

In the painting in question you see none other than Roland Deschain, better known as the Gunslinger, main character in King’s series of novels, The Dark Tower, which connects the horror master’s bibliography into a kind of shared literary universe. But that’s not all, because the true author of the work is none other than Drew Struzan, a British artist whose name may not be familiar to you, but who you probably know very well.

Struzan, originally from Oregon, in addition to cultivating the areas of painting, illustration and graphic design, will go down in history for having signed some of the most memorable film posters of the 70s, 80s and 90s, including gems such as the Back to the World sagas. Future, Indiana Jones and films such as Rambo, Star Wars – and the prequel trilogy, Hook – The Return of Captain Hook and The Goonies. Almost anything.

Furthermore, the introductory scene of The Fog refers to Struzan’s real work, showing in David’s studio a screen with the poster for The Riddle of Another World, by John Carpenter, a work par excellence of modern horror cinema with the which the film in question has many similarities. And that’s how a good triple reference is shaped.

The Fog is available on Netflix and Prime Video.

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