films of recent years.
unfaithful wife and her lover. He is sent to Shawshank prison, where he endures unspeakable hardships.
his fellow inmates, particularly seasoned lifer "Red" Redding and as the deliciously evil Warden Norton, a delightfully release in 1994. But since then, after discovering a wider audience on video and DVD, it has gone on to be acknowledged as one of the most universally popular films of the last twenty years, often the best movies ever made (it currently sits at #2, behind The Godfather). It also remains a best-selling DVD, almost ten years after its release.
story by horror maestro Stephen King, entitled 'Rita Hayworth and reference). It was collected in a book entitled Different Seasons, which contained four novellas, each relating to a particular season - Shawshank's being Hope Springs Eternal. Other films based on the same name).
Only The Breathing Method remains unadapted.
Prior to making The Shawshank Redemption, writer/director Frank classic 80s horror films as The Blob, The Fly II and Nightmare on Jones Chronicles, the series on which Lucas tested out many of the Attack of the Clones. Working with Lucas here lead to Darabont Subsequent writers have worked on the project, and no story details have emerged.
with it," Darabont says of The Shawshank Redemption. "I'm interested in all of King's works, but I'm particularly attracted to the non-horror King where my films are concerned. King writes people so well, and he's so good with narrative.
He tells a great story, and what I found compelling about this one was the underlying message about the human spirit. It gives you something to think about."
to," Darabont contines.
"Many people didn't know that Stand By Me was written by King. This is much more in that spirit than any of the other movies that have been made from his works."
For his next film, Darabont adapted another prison-themed Stephen King story, The Green Mile, which while a success in its own right, was not quite as universally loved as Shawshank.
He then made the Jim Carrey-stinker The Majestic, about which the less said about the better.
But for the man's undisputed magnum-opus, experience the joyful ode to friendship, hope and survival that is The Shawshank
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