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Frank Darabont (innate in January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

He was natural withwithin the camp in Montbeliard, France. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. While he was however an baby, his personal moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Per age of Twenty, Darabont became required inside filmmaking. He manufactured his feature-long directorial debut sustaining Buried Alive (1990), a TV picture. He became celebrated, still, when writing & directing The Shawshank Redemption (1994) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Fallowing a 5-month hiatus, Darabont returned to the screen using the highly swell receieved The Green Mile, a film he directed, written, & produced. Such as "The Shawshank Redemption," this film is too according to the novel by Stephen King. A film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Darabont was nominated for his second Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Frank Darabont is considered one of a virtually all gifted writers inside Hollywood, and he is known to keep close at hand doctored a scripts of deuce Steven Spielberg films (namely Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report).

Notable Films by Darabont
Buried Alive (1990) (TV) - director The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - director, screenwriter The Green Mile (1999) - director, screenwriter, producer The Majestic (2001) - director, producer The Salton Sea (2002) - producer

Future Projects
Frank Darabont may remake Fahrenheit 451, a film according to a Ray Bradbury novel. Todays release date is directed at late 2005. Frank Darabont is planning to watch higher his Stephen King legacy with eventually an additional film according to his writings. This period he may adapt The Mist, the story just about "a group of people trapped in a supermarket surrounded by a fog filled with hideous monsters."

Frank Darabont
The director of 'The Green Mile' and 'The Shawshank Redemption.'

Redeeming the Writer: A Conversation with Frank Darabont
Stu Kobak profiles the writer/director of The Shawshank Redemption.


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