This new, expanded edition draws on the many extras created for the new DVD, including 90 mins of commentary by writer/director Darabont, documentary material on the making of the film, and a tribute parody Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison. Based on a Stephen King short story, Frank Darabont's screenplay follows the complex 20-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common beyond a will to survive. Darabont has personally written or assembled all of the material, new and old in this expanded Shooting Script edition: Introductions by Stephen King and Frank Darabont The Shooting Script in its original form Detailed analysis of script-to-screen changes (29 pages in all) showing how and why scenes were cut and amended Two storyboard sequences, with commentary Stills section of 35 photos in all Afterword by Darabont about his experience in Hollywood