Saturday, June 28, 2014

Shawshank Redemption Factoids:

*The movie was based on a Stephen King novella titled "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption."

*King sold the rights to the novella for $5,000 in the late 80's.

*The character "Red" was Irish, convicted of murdering his wife for insurance money, and in the process inadvertently also killed two other people.

*Morgan Freeman was selected to play "Red" over the likes of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford.

*Animal rights groups protested "Brooks" feeding live maggots to his pet crow, claiming it was cruel to the maggot, so the crew had to find a maggot that had died of natural causes before shooting the scene.

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