Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

The novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was published in Different Seasons (1982), inspired the Academy Award-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption (1994), starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

…and based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982), by the American author Stephen King. The film’s director and screenwriter, Frank Darabont, paid King a token fee of $5,000 in 1987 for permission to adapt the story. Although not an early box office success, earning only $16 million…