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3 April 2012 1:56 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
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 »
- Fred Salmon
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