The Shawshank Redemption: Screenplay & Notes (NHB Shooting Scripts)

by Frank Darabont (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $10.21

  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