Bringing the literary work of Stephen King to life on the big screen is incredibly difficult.
King’s novels are layered with complex characters, unique locations, and downright bizarre stories.
But Frank Darabont seems to have found the right formula.
The director responsible for “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Mist” also brought one of King’s most impactful works to life while earning a Best Picture Oscar nomination.King, always on the cusp of publishing trends, released “The Green Mile” in 1996 as a six-part serial novel.
It is told through the eyes of Great Depression-era death row prison guard Paul Edgecomb, but it is ultimately the story of John Coffey.
Coffey is a mountainous, simple-yet-magical Black man wrongly accused of raping and killing two young white girls.
Coffey faces the barbarous racism of the 1930s South while grappling with being cursed with a healing touch.One of the parts of Darabont’s formula
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