The Shawshank Redemption: Screenplay & Notes
Frank Darabont(Author)
Nick Hern Books (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-85459-360-3 (ISBN)
Description
10th Anniversary re-issue of cult gaolhouse classic to coincide with re-release on 9 September Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison. Based on a Stephen King short story, Frank Darabont's screenplay follows the complex 20-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common beyond a will to survive. Darabont personally wrote and assembled all of the extensive material, in this, the best-selling of the Shooting Script series: Introductions by Stephen King and Frank Darabont The Shooting Script in its original form Detailed analysis of script-to-screen changes (29 pages in all) showing how and why scenes were cut and amended Two storyboard sequences, with commentary Stills section of 35 photos in all Afterword by Darabont about his experience in Hollywood
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 180 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-360-3 (9781854593603)
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Frank Darabont
The Shawshank Redemption: 10th Anniversary Edition
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11/2004
Nick Hern Books
€32.37
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Frank Darabont, a three-time Oscar nominee, is one of only six filmmakers ever to receive Best Picture nominations for their first two films. After Shawshank (1994) came The Green Mile (1999). Currently Darabont is executive producing the Tom Cruise thriller, Collateral.