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Frank Darabont Biography

Frank Darabont is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on January 28, 1959 in Montbéliard, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker , who directed films such as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption.

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Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbéliard, Doubs, France. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution with his 5 brothers, 4 sisters, and 3 cousins. When he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, settling in Chicago. When Darabont was five the family moved to Los Angeles.

Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007).

His birthplace was in the refugee camps prior to when his parents decided to send them to United States.

Name	Frank Darabont
First Name	Frank
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Occupation	Director
Birthday	January 28
Birth Year	1959
Place of Birth	Montbéliard
Home Town	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Birth Country	France
Birth Sign	Capricorn
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Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Darabont became involved in filmmaking by becoming a production assistant on such films as Hell Night, The Seduction and Trancers. The first film he wrote and directed was a short adaptation of Stephen King’s The Woman in the Room, which was one of the first “Dollar Babies” and made the semi-finalist list for Academy Award consideration in 1983. Although Darabont was not happy with how the short turned out, it led to a close association with King, who granted him the “handshake deal” rights to another one of his shorter works, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from the collection Different Seasons.

Frank Darabont Net Worth

Frank Darabont is one of the richest Director from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frank Darabont's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He produced a short movie which was a reworking to He made a short film that was an adaption of Stephen King‘s The Woman in the Room.’s The Woman in the Room.

The executive producer was of the initial episode of The Walking Dead.

Over the years Darabont has reunited with his old writing partner Chuck Russell. He did a rewrite for Russell’s film Eraser, they attempted to adapt a film of the 1930s pulp character, Doc Savage, and the two wrote an early treatment and were executive producers on the film Collateral.

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Darabont sold his first screenplay titled Black Cat Run in 1986, but it was not produced until over a decade later as a television film under the same name. Darabont was approached by Chuck Russell (who was a producer on Hell Night and The Seduction) with an offer to become his writing partner, as he had become interested in Darabont’s writing after reading a spec script he had written for the television series M*A*S*H. The two began working on a script for a remake of the film The Blob, which they had planned to shop around to studios, until they were both hired to rewrite the script of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Russell directing the film. The two were only given two weeks to rewrite the script and managed to do it in ten days. The success of their A Nightmare on Elm Street film allowed them to produce the first script they had originally written, The Blob. Darabont was now a successful writer for hire and went on to write The Fly II, an early draft of The Rocketeer, and an unproduced sequel to Commando.

Darabont made his directorial debut with Buried Alive, a television movie with a $2,000,000 budget that aired on the USA Network in 1990. Darabont followed with an extended run as writer for George Lucas’s television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and writing two episodes of the television series Tales from the Crypt.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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The Woman in the Room (1983 film) and Buried Alive (1990) are not listed due to lack of collaborations. (Although Brian Libby appears in both.)

Although the film did not fare well at the box office, it was met with acclaim by audiences and critics, and the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Darabont. The film gained traction after its Academy Award nominations, becoming the most rented film of 1995, and is today considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made.

Who is Frank Darabont Dating?

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Darabont’s next directorial effort was another Stephen King adaptation, The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks. At first Darabont was reluctant to adapt the novel into a film, as its setting was too similar to Shawshank, but quickly changed his mind after reading the novel. Hanks and Darabont first met at an Academy Award luncheon in 1994 and the two were both eager to work on a project together. Stephen King stated he envisioned Hanks in the role and was happy when Darabont mentioned his name.

Facts & Trivia

Frank Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Frank Darabont celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.

He followed The Green Mile with the 2001 film The Majestic starring Jim Carrey, Martin Landau and Laurie Holden, whom Darabont would work with again frequently throughout his career. Michael Sloane, who Darabont had known since high school, wrote the script and the film remains one of the few films that Darabont directed, but did not write. Darabont wanted to direct the film as he saw it as a “love letter” to works of Frank Capra and all the other movies he has loved throughout his life. The film received mixed reviews from critics and also bombed at the box-office, recouping only half of its $72 million budget internationally.

Why did Frank Darabont stop making movies?

Initial reports suggested that he was unable to adjust to the schedule of running a television series; however, it was later confirmed that he was fired due to AMC’s desire to reduce the show’s budget (twice as many episodes for 20% less of a budget) and to his strained relationship with the executives of AMC.

Why is Frank Darabont suing The Walking Dead?

Meanwhile, Darabont filed another suit in 2018 claiming other fiduciary abuses by AMC related to the profit participation deal. The settlement announced Friday settles both of those cases, which had been combined by the judge.

Are Frank Darabont and Stephen King friends?

A good friend of Stephen King and a lifelong fan, Darabont bought the film rights to several of King’s works, most for only one dollar. Darabont is now focusing on making a film based off of The Long Walk.

Did Frank Darabont write Shawshank Redemption?

From the Academy Award-nominated short film The Woman in the Room, Frank Darabont’s first writer/director effort, to The Blob, The Fly II, The Mist, the first season of The Walking Dead and, of course, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile and several more in between, Darabont has spent over thirty years creating …

Is Shawshank Redemption Based on a true story?

The Shawshank Redemption is based on a Stephen King novella The Shawshank Redemption isn’t based on a true story, and Frank Darabont didn’t come up with it by himself, either. The movie’s based on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, a novella first published in Stephen King’s Different Seasons.

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