Frank Darabont on The Green Mile
In the second of a two part series, Frank discusses his early work on television, adapting The Green Mile, and making the fantastical realistic.
By Daniel Argent and Erik Bauer. Today, Frank Darabont is perhaps best-known as the creator of hit television series The Walking Dead. However, for many people, he will always be remembered most for his Oscar-nominated adaptations of two Stephen King novels, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Darabont is a friendly, laughing man, a […]
Frank Darabont on The Shawshank Redemption
In the first of a two part series, Frank Darabont discusses getting started in the business, the appeal of Stephen King, and themes of hope and redemption in The Shawshank Redemption.
By Daniel Argent and Erik Bauer. Today, Frank Darabont is perhaps best-known as the creator of hit television series The Walking Dead. However, for many people, he will always be remembered most for his Oscar-nominated adaptations of two Stephen King novels, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Darabont is a friendly, laughing man, a […]
David Koepp: Writer Not Auteur
David Koepp reveals why all screenwriters want to be directors, why directing is psychologically-damaging, and why new film technologies are like pornography.
By Erik Bauer and David Goldsmith. Growing up in Pewaukee, WI, Koepp initially pursued acting, but eventually studied screenwriting at UCLA Film School. His first screen credit was Apartment Zero, co-written with brother-in-law Martin Donovan. This Argentinean drama didn’t light many fires in Hollywood, but his next screenplay Bad Influence, would net Koepp a young […]
“It’s Always the Story” – The Craft of Carpenter
An in-depth interview with John Carpenter.
By Erik Bauer. One of the undisputed masters of the horror genre, John Carpenter is a director who straddles the line between mainstream and cult filmmaking. His most personal work, including John Carpenter’s The Thing, Halloween, and less successfully, Prince of Darkness, is permeated with a sense of dread and the inevitability of violence. Carpenter’s […]
“I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It’s all bullshit.” – John Milius
In an exceptionally frank interview, John Milius talks about Hollywood, his experiences as a writer, and his dislike of books which teach screenwriting.
By Erik Bauer. Stepping into John Milius’s Writers Building office at Warner Bros., I can’t help being struck by the different influences that have shaped his life—a “Bear” surfboard, model soldiers refighting the Spanish American War, Soviet military regalia, a poster from Conan the Barbarian, Cuban cigars, and guns, lots of guns. But most powerful […]
