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It's pretty clear that writer / director Frank Darabont is having a ball with this material. Although best known for adapting two of the more 'austere' Stephen King movies (The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile), Darabont cut his teeth writing scripts like The Blob, The Fly 2, and Nightmare on Elm Street 3 -- so clearly we're talking about an "A-list" director who has some real affection and respect for the horror genre. For his third adaptation of a King story, Darabont just leans back and tosses a genre fastball right down the middle of the plate. Even at a solid two hours long, The Mist slides by with an almost effortless gait; even the smaller dialog scenes serve to amp up the 'big picture' tension just a little.
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Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a three-time Academy Award nominated[1]American film director, screenwriter, and Producer. He has been involved in the production of two Academy Award-nominated films, The Shawshank Redemption[2] and The Green Mile[3].
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"Frank Darabont has to have one of the most consistent career arcs of any living film director," wrote Tom Shone in the New York Times. Darabont first made it into the top rank of Hollywood directors with his 1994 adaptation of the Stephen King prison story The Shawshank Redemption, a box-office hit that garnered seven Oscar nominations. His next outing was another King prison drama, The Green Mile, which--despite criticism for its length--... brought people to the box office and won awards. A screenwriter, with credits on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, among others, Darabont moved away from King country with his 2001 film, The Majestic, a valentine to early twentieth-century director Frank Capra, whose movies about small-town American virtues the French-born Darabont has long respected. "Indeed," noted Shone, "Mr. Darabont's movies exert an old-fashioned pull, like the roots of an oak, slow to grow but, once they have their hold on you, impossible to budge." Gregg Kilday, writing in the Los Angeles Times, noted that "as a filmmaker, [Darabont] has lived a relatively charmed life.
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Seven months after calling his work on the then-untitled “Indiana Jones 4” script “a waste of a year,” director Frank Darabont told MTV News that he’s moved on from earlier resentment. His script, favored by Spielberg, was ultimately rejected by George Lucas. And yet, to listen to Darabont, one gets the impression that there very well might soon be a feud of sorts — over credit. Insisting that he still hasn’t read “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” (scripted by “Spider-Man” writer David Koepp), Darabont again indicated that there may be more than a passing resemblance to his efforts, echoing statements he made to MTV in August.
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Director Frank Darabont tells SCI FI Wire that in his big-screen do-up of Stephen King's novella The Mist (in theaters Nov. 21), he saw fit to do away with the original, ambiguous ending. Before you get your knickers in a knot, know that King not only signed off on the change, he freakin' loved it. "It is the most shocking ending ever," he says, apparently having mastered the art of Trumpian overstatement, "and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last five minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead." — Ben Katner read more
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A screenwriter-turned-director, Frank Darabont initially entered the film industry as production assistant and set dresser before he got a break when he sold an original screenplay (eventually produced in 1997 and aired on HBO) to producer Jere Henshaw and Apollo Pictures. The son of Hungarian refugees, he was born in a French relocation camp and raised in Chicago and Southern California. Eschewing college for a crack at a career in films, Darabont was driven by his goals. With several friends, he acquired the rights to a Stephen King short story "Woman in the Room" and fashioned a 30-minute short that eventually aired on cable outlets and was released to video. Darabont received his first screenplay credit when he helped director Chuck Russell rewrite "A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors" (1987). The film's popularity and Darabont's long-standing love of horror films led to his penning screenplays for the remake "The Blob" (1988), the sequel "The Fly II" (1989) and several episodes of TV's "Tales from the Crypt". He cut his teeth as a producer on a TV horror flick, "Buried Alive" (USA Network, 1990) and began to branch out from scary material writing for the ABC adventure series, "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992).
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