• 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.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Born in a refugee camp in Montbeliard, France
  2. Parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Revolution
  3. Three-time Oscar nominee
  4. Published novella "Walpuski's Typewriter" in 2006

• 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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