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Frank Darabont (born on January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in a refugee camp in Montbeliard, France. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. When he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life. By the age of 20, Darabont became involved in filmmaking. He made his feature-long directorial debut with Buried Alive (1990), a TV movie. He bacame famous, however, after directing and writing The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. He received an Academy award nomination for it. After a five-year hiatus, Darabont returned to the screen with the extremly-well receieved The Green Mile, a film he directed, scripted, and produced. Like The Shawshank Redemption, this film is also based on a novel by Stephen KingThis page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. There is also Stephen King, a convicted British paedophile. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. King's books have been extremely po. Darabont is considered one of the most talented writers in Hollywood, and he is known to have doctored the scripts of two Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Jewish American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. He is noted for the patriotism of his work and, in recent years, for his wi films (namely Saving Private RyanSaving Private Ryan is a 1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg dealing with the World War II Battle of Normandy. The film is particularly notable for the intensity of the scenes in its first twenty minutes or so, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault and Minority ReportMinority Report is a 2002 science fiction film by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name, and starring Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, and Colin Farrell. It did middling-well at the box office. Minor).1 Notable Films by Darabont
- Burried Alive (1990) (TV) - director
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - director, screenwriter
- The Green Mile (1999) - director, screenwriter, producer
- Majestic (2001) - director, producer
- The Salton Sea (2002) - producer
2 Future Projects
- Frank Darabont will remake Fahrenheit 451, a film based on the Ray Bradbury novel. Current release date is directed at late 2005.
- Frank Darabont is planning to follow up his Stephen King legacy with yet another film based on his writings. This time he will adapt The Mist, a story about "a group of people trapped in a supermarket surrounded by a fog filled with hideous monsters."
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