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Rebecca Lea Sep 25, 2017

Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King arrive at the hugely popular The Shawshank Redemption...

The film: Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is accused of murdering his wife and her lover. Despite protesting his innocence, the jury is unconvinced and he is given two life sentences, the duration of which will be endured at Shawshank Prison. There, he meets Red (Morgan Freeman) who narrates their story. The two men form a close friendship as Andy gets used to prison life, dealing with aggressive fellow inmates, corrupt prison officials, and eventually running the Shawshank library.

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Frank Darabont is listed as one of the few directors who really manages to capture the work of Stephen King on screen.

John Saavedra Dec 11, 2017

Want to make a short film based on one of Stephen King's stories? Chances are that it'll only cost you a dollar...

Stephen King is, you might say, a bit prolific. With over 50 novels, 6 nonfiction books, and 200 short stories to his name (or Richard Bachman's), King has one of the hardest-working pens/typewriters/laptops in the writing world. And best of all, when it comes to King's work, quantity does equal quality. 

That's probably why Hollywood is constantly optioning his countless works for big blockbuster film adaptations. Guys like Frank Darabont, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Lawrence Kasdan, and Rob Reiner have all taken stabs (no pun intended) at his work. Many of them are even great films that hold their own, which is very rare in the novel-to-film adaptation business, especially when the source material is as high-profile as King's.

Dan Cooper Jul 12, 2016

We look back - with spoilers - at the incredible ending to the film of Stephen King's The Mist...

Unsurprisingly, this article contains spoilers for 2007’s The Mist. This is a deliberately big spoiler warning, for a film you really don't want spoiled. Really.

Stephen King is a man of many collaborations. We suspect you don't need us to tell you that, as they span many mediums and have borne more sweet-tasting, fleshy morsels than the Man from Del Monte would know what to do with.

Without even mentioning his many silver screen collaborative efforts, there’s American Vampire, the excellent comic book series he has co-written with the wildly-talented Scott Snyder; Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County, a musical created in cahoots with T Bone Burnett (creator of that theme tune for True Detective amongst many, many other things). If we’re talking straight up words on...

One of the main attractions at this year’s Comicpalooza in Houston—in addition to appearances by the likes of Patrick Stewart, Michelle Rodriguez and Danny Trejo—was the three-day Dollar Baby Film Festival organized by Shawn S. Lealos.

What’s a “Dollar Baby?” It’s a short film based on a Stephen King story or novella. For decades, King has allowed people to acquire limited film rights to an available story for one dollar. The resulting movies cannot be released on the internet or shown at for-profit venues, which limits their availability to festivals like this one. The filmmakers can include their movies on clip reels as calling cards. King also gets a copy of the finished product. The quality of these adaptations is all over the map, but the increased availability of affordable digital cameras and video editing software means that the community is growing by leaps and bounds.

Frank Darabont is a legend in the world of film and one of the most underrated writer/directors of our generation. But for the last few years he’s been moving away from film towards the world of television. Everyone in Hollywood considers television a step back for such an established writer/director, but is that the right way to think?

His best known film The Shawshank Redemption was snubbed at the oscars in 1995 and barely even made its money at the box office (and only after being re-released the following year). Darabont has always had a topsy turvy relationship with Hollywood throughout his life, but did you know that before he even got a job in the film world he had already gained the rights to adapt a work of Stephen King?

Darabont was born in 1959 in a Refugee camp after his parents fled Hungary in 1956. They very swiftly...

by Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com

For almost thirty years now Stephen King has been granting up and comers the rights to some of his stories. We’ve all heard of his dollar babies, where he give filmmakers a chance to adapt his work for the princely price of a dollar and one copy of the flick. I was lucky enough to catch Frank Darabont’s first flick “The Woman in the Room” years ago, and it showed obvious talent in the making. The only rule King puts on the filmmakers is that they don’t release it commercially without his permission, that he’s given screen credit, and that his name isn’t put in the title unless he specifically gives his approval. I guess the title credit is his secret handshake to let fans know which of his children he likes the best.

Right now, Chris Ethridge’s “Survivor Type...

A few days ago, we found out that Stephen King was in negotiations to write an episode of The Walking Dead.  It seems a natural fit, since series executive producer Frank Darabont directed four Stephen King properties (The Green Mile, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption and the early 1980s short The Woman in the Room).  But it appears someone will likely be joining King on this episode. Who is it?  Find out after the jump. EW.com is reporting that none other than King's son, Joe Hill, will likely co-write the episode with his dad.  Hill is an acclaimed horror writer in his own right, and has his own TV adaptation on the horizon -- Locke & Key, based on Hill's graphic novel...

It seems the world’s most famous scare scribe is in talks to write an episode of a certain TV series involving his old pal Frank Darabont. IGN reports that at their The Walking Dead panel held at C2E2, Laurie Holden (who plays Andrea on the AMC show) leaked that King is in talks to write a Season Two episode. King has a long relationship with The Walking Dead’s showrunner Darabont, who adapted King’s The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist for the silver screen. Darabont is also the first person to direct a Stephen King Dollar Baby, with his version of The Woman in the Room.

The veteran horror novelist is currently involved in early talks to co-write an episode with his son Joe Hill, Entertainment Weekly said. King told the magazine that Frank Darabont, the show’s executive producer, “has expressed enthusiastic interest for season 2 or possibly 3.”

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With all of the misunderstanding and buzz around the writing staff of The Walking Dead after season one, maybe they had Stephen King in mind all along. The legendary horror novelist spoke with Entertainment Weekly about writing an episode of AMC’s zombie sensation. King and The Walking Dead producer, Frank Darabont have a strong relationship having directed one short film (The Woman in the Room) and three feature films based on King’s work (Shawhank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist). Talks are in the early stages of negotiations but word is that King would co-write the episode with his son and fellow horror novelist, Joe Hill who has written the Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, and the Idw comic and soon-to-be TV series, Locke and Key.

Anytime there’s a chance for King and/or Hill to write in any capacity is a thrill for all parties involved, especially fans.

AMC’s zombie sensation The Walking Dead might be getting a serious scare injection on its writing staff for next season. Iconic horror novelist (and former EW columnist) Stephen King has confirmed with EW that he’s currently in talks to write an episode of the post-apocalyptic series. Dead is executive-produced by Frank Darabont, who has directed three films based on King’s work — four, if you count his 1983 short film The Woman in the Room — and King tells EW exclusively that Darabont “has expressed enthusiastic interest for season 2 or possibly 3.” Although the author is still early in negotiations, the...