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Screenwriter and director Frank Darabont has made three feature-length Stephen King adaptations to date: The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and the 2007 film The Mist. He started his career as a screenwriter, largely working on horror films.
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Fast Facts:
- Born in a refugee camp in Montbeliard, France
- Parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Revolution
- Three-time Oscar nominee
- Published novella "Walpuski's Typewriter" in 2006
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Screenwriting
Darabont made some short films at the start of his career, and then moved into screenwriting. He worked on the scripts for Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Fly 2, and was a staff writer on the short-lived TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.Since becoming a director, Darabont has still touched up a few scripts, including the Steven Spielberg films Minority Report and Saving Private Ryan. He wrote an early draft for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but it was rejected by producer George Lucas.
Association with King
Author Stephen King likes to encourage young filmmakers through his Dollar Baby program, under which he'll sell the rights to a story to a young filmmaker for $1. Darabont's first short film as a writer-director was an adaptation of the King short story The Woman in the Room in 1983, and the film led to a close relationship between the author and the filmmaker. King agreed early on to allow Darabont to adapt another one of his stories, called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, which he turned into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994.
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Frank Darabont Questions
What is the story behind Charles Frank Holmans $55,000.00 donation to help fund Nashua NHs Historic Holman Stadium in 1937? 2 AnswersWell, took a bit of searching on the subject, but this is what I could find about his connection with the city and the project: "Charles Frank Holman served as ... read more
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Frank Darabont Timeline
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- January 28, 1959: Born
- 2009 Fahrenheit 451: IMDb | Wikipedia (announced)
- 2008 Foreign Babes in Beijing: IMDb (pre-production)
- 2007 The Mist: IMDb | Wikipedia
- 2005 Walpuski's Typewriter: Official Publisher's Site (book)
- 2004 Collateral: IMDb
- 2001 The Majestic: IMDb | Wikipedia
- 1999 The Green Mile: IMDb | Wikipedia
- 1994 The Shawshank Redemption: IMDb |Wikipedia
- 1994 Frankenstein: IMDb
- 1989 The Fly II: IMDb
- 1988 The Blob: IMDb
- 1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors: IMDb
- 1983 The Woman in the Room: IMDb
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Man, The Mist is such a predictable downer... they shoulda cast Thomas Jane in a Frank Darabont adaptation!
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Watching THE MIST extras and FRANK DARABONT brought ERIC "THE GOON" POWELL on set and praised him. How cool!
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@aots The Dark Tower series are great books, and The Shawshank Redemption, with credit to Frank Darabont, is an amazing film.
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RT @FEARnet: Spielberg joins King UNDER THE DOME, where's Frank Darabont when you need him? http://bit.ly/6TJT9X
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Spielberg joins King UNDER THE DOME, where's Frank Darabont when you need him? http://bit.ly/6TJT9X
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