ĭarabont sold his first screenplay titled Black Cat Run in 1986, but it was not produced until over a decade later as a television film under the same name. Although Darabont was not happy with how the short turned out, it led to a close association with King, who granted him the "handshake deal" rights to another one of his shorter works, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from the collection Different Seasons. The first film he wrote and directed was a short adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in the Room, which was one of the first " Dollar Babies" and made the semi-finalist list for Academy Award consideration in 1983. Career Early works ĭarabont became involved in filmmaking by becoming a production assistant on such films as Hell Night, The Seduction and Trancers. He claims he got his writing skills from "endless hours" of writing at a desk on a typewriter in his free time, and from his childhood friend Cody Hills. His first job after finishing school was working at the famed Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, working at the concession stand and as a seat finder, where he would get to watch films for free. Darabont graduated from Hollywood High School in 1977 and did not attend college. ĭarabont was inspired to pursue a career in film after seeing the George Lucas film THX 1138 in his youth. When Darabont was five the family moved to Los Angeles. When he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, settling in Chicago.
His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution with his five brothers, four sisters, and three cousins.
Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbéliard, France.
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