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Based on a novella by Stephen King, Apt Puil depicts a high school student with a Nazi obsession as he blackmails a German World War II criminal. The student forces the old man to tell him stories of the concentration camps.
In order to convince King to give them the rights to the story, Bryan Singer sent him Brandon Boyce's screenplay and a copy of the then-unreleased film The Usual Suspects. King then agreed to let Singer make the film.
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- Starring: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer
- Director: Bryan Singer
- Producers: Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy
- Released: October 8, 1998
- Rated: R
- Running time: 111 minutes
- The short story appeared in the collection Different Seasons, which also featured The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me
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There had been a prior attempt to make Apt Pupil into a film in the 1980s. Both James Mason and Richard Burton were interested in the role of Kurt, but died before production began. Another production with Alan Bridges as director was started, but went over budget and had to be shut down. Stephen King has said that the scenes he saw from this original production were "really good."Stephen King reacquired the rights to the novella in 1995; Singer and producer Don Murphy were quick to purchase them from King once they learned of this development.
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@ScribnerBooks I'd be an APT PUPIL of #stephenking if I won the new book!
@jules792000 | November 10, 2009 09:22 PM -
But maybe the weirdest thing about 'Apt Pupil' is that David Schwimmer has a big role
@knowmadriblets | November 10, 2009 12:52 AM -
I just realized a bizarre Nazi Germany fascination from Bryan Singer: 'Apt Pupil,' 'X Men,' and 'Valkyrie'
@knowmadriblets | November 10, 2009 12:30 AM -
I'm watching 'Apt Pupil' for the first time. I don't think I can handle it.
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Apt Pupil [Region 2] - $26.99
At the top of his game, Stephen King has a real gift for mining monsters--zero-at-the-bone horror--out of everyday faces and places. Adapted from a novella in the 1982 collection that also spawned Stand by Me and The Shawshank ...
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Apt Pupil [Region 2] - $12.60
At the top of his game, Stephen King has a real gift for mining monsters--zero-at-the-bone horror--out of everyday faces and places. Adapted from a novella in the 1982 collection that also spawned Stand by Me and The Shawshank ...
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Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons - $7.99
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander ...
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Obsessed with the atrocities war criminal kurt dussander committed during the war young todd bowden begins a game of psychological warfare which spirals out of control and produces terrifying results. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Releas...
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