Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

Constantine Nasr
2000-06-13


7
11 min

Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send the script to him firstly, when the first tale was finished and sent to Darabont, after reading such odd story, asking for more, so King replied "You must wait as anybody else", receiving later all other tales Frank wrote a screenplay on 8 weeks, so come up "the Green Mile"

Cast

Name Character Team
Tom Hanks Self / Paul Edgecomb Goutbreak
David Valdes Self - Producer Unowned
Michael Jeter Self / Eduard Delacroix Unowned
James Cromwell Self / Warden Hal Moores Unowned
Frank Darabont Self - Writer / Director Unowned
Michael Clarke Duncan Self - 'John Coffey' Unowned
Bonnie Hunt Self - 'Jan Edgecomb' Unowned
Doug Hutchison Self / Percy Wetmore Unowned
Stephen King Self - Author Unowned
David Morse Self - 'Brutal Howell' Goutbreak
Barry Pepper Self - 'Dean Stanton' Unowned
William Sadler Self - 'Klaus Detterick' Unowned
Eve Brent Self (uncredited) Unowned
Patricia Clarkson Self (uncredited) The Free Refills
Bailey Drucker Self (uncredited) Unowned
Evanne Drucker Self (uncredited) Unowned
Graham Greene Self (uncredited) Unowned
Dabbs Greer Self (uncredited) Unowned
Brian Libby Self (uncredited) Unowned
Sam Rockwell Self (uncredited) Goutbreak