Well, I, actually, in many ways, used my learnings in my own research to help me make that choice. I kept asking myself the question in lots of different ways. I kept looking at my own data, as in “What would be the worst-case scenario for me if I did X versus Y? What woul...
Instead, King maintains a policy of granting newbie directors in need of a calling card the rights to his short stories for one dollar. In 1983 a 20-something Darabont handed King a buck to make The Woman in the Room, one of the few amateur short films based on his work that the ...
according to darabont, in exchange for allowing reiner to make the movie with cruise. darabont, who had been born in a french refugee camp for hungarians fleeing the 1956 revolution and subsequently grew up poor in l.a., was tempted. “in my struggling-writer days, i could barely meet ...