Frank Darabont
Also Known As: Френк Дарабонт, Frank A. Darabont, Ardeth Bey, 프랭크 다라본트, فرانک دارابونت
Biography: Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France by Hungarian parents who fled Budapest during the 1956 uprising, but the family moved to Los Angeles while he was still an infant. He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, all based on stories by Stephen King. In 2010 he developed and executive produced the first season of the AMC network television series The Walking Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Darabont, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Montbéliard, Doubs, France
Birthday: January 28, 1959
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Gender: Male
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Tales from the Script
Overview: Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-10
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Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Overview: The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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King on Screen
Overview: 1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Overview: Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense project from start to finish. It turns out that this one film may actually be a larger task to complete than all 3 of the Lord of the Rings films together.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-09
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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Overview: A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-19
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The United Monster Talent Agency
Overview: A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-27
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Nightmare Factory
Overview: The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific makeup effects studios in the world. After twenty years as the “go to guy” for the world’s most successful horror/sci-fi films, Greg Nicotero is the first one directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez call.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Overview: The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-14
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Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Overview: In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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Walking the Mile
Overview: Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-09
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Vampires
Overview: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
Overview: A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes, Joe Carnahan, Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua and Frank Darabont are interviewed about the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Stephen King's World of Horror
Overview: This horror documentary is not the same as the 1986 TV special Stephen King's World of Horror nor the 1988 VHS release of the same name, which runs 45 minutes, was distributed by Front Row Entertainment and is about King himself. Instead, This Is Horror (copyright 1989) was a TV special which ran in four 60 minute increments. This new special used some framing footage from the original 'World of Horror' but is primarily newer interviews and behind-the-scenes footage about what was hot in horror in the late 80s. Here in the U.S., a condensed 90-minute version made its way onto video courtesy of Goodtimes in 1990. Elsewhere, the entire special was released as 2 different tapes running 90 minutes apiece. In the UK these were titled This is Horror: A Video Encyclopedia of Horror (Volumes 1 and 2) and in Germany they were called Best of Stephen King's World of Horror (Parts 1 & 2).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Stephen King's World of Horror
Overview: A documentary about the works of novelist Stephen King and his influence on popular culture and his impact on horror film and novels. Includes celebrity guests John Carpenter, Clive Barker and Frank Darabont, plus a section on outrageous horror film promotions. Portions of this 45-minute TV special (released as is on VHS by Front Row Entertainment in 1988) were later used as bookmarking material for the This is Horror releases in 1989-90.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Overview: This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. Written by Kevin VanHook
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-07
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Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
Overview: Retrospective on The Nightmare On Elm Street Series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-10
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Clint Eastwood's West
Overview: An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-06
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When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
Overview: This is a short featurette that features famed poster artist Struzan, made legendary for his beautiful Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Stephen King adaptation posters. Thomas Jane's character became modeled after Struzan, which might be easily identifiable at the start of The Mist.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist
Overview: This 16-minute featurette focuses on CafeFX, the team behind the CG work in The Mist (as well as Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth). They discuss a wide array of points, from matching models with the KNB creature crew to documentaries that inspired the designs. It's great to see a lot of the work-in-progress materials (grid assembly, texture work, etc), as it helps to appreciate exactly what pops up on screen. Furthermore, it also discusses a lot of the "mist" effects that play off of their environments
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Overview: Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send the script to him firstly, when the first tale was finished and sent to Darabont, after reading such odd story, asking for more, so King replied "You must wait as anybody else", receiving later all other tales Frank wrote a screenplay on 8 weeks, so come up "the Green Mile"
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-13
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Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
Overview: Whenever a solid "brain trust" around creature assembly exists, then the process behind crafting these monsters must've been interesting. This 13-minute featurette captures the process of crafting the concepts for the monsters, from the models assembled for the primary ideas to the separation of computer and realistic tangible effects. KNB effects did some really strong work here, even in the small ways that purely give actors inspiration for their performances.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35
Overview: Scene 35 can best be described as the point in which the muck hits the fan. It's a scene with unbridled chaos involving CG effects, creature models, stunts, coordination, dramatic character portrayals ... just about anything that could possibly go wrong in a scene. This feature shows how it came to be, how Darabont infused some last-minute ideas into its assembly, and how it wedged in as one of the stronger parts of The Mist.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
Overview: A documentary on the Looney Tunes. Including interviews from people who worked on it, and their family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-28
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The Making of The Walking Dead
Overview: The Making of the TV Series The Walking Dead.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-31
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
Overview: Film critic and presenter Mark Kermode explores the fascination and praise audiences, fans and critics have behind the classic The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and how its importance grew higher over the years despite being an overlooked film when it was released and not getting any Oscars victories when it was nominated as one of the Best Pictures of the Year.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-08
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