Frank Darabont Ferenc was born on 28 January 1959 to Hungarian parents in the French town of Monbeliard, where his parents were seeking refuge from the Soviet response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Now simply Frank Darabont, he is an American film producer, director and screen-writer, perhaps best known for his involvement in such films as “The Shawshank Redemption”, and TV series “The Walking Dead”, since his debut in the early ’80s.
So just how rich is Frank Darabont? Sources state that Frank’s estimated net worth is now over $15 million, accumulated from his varied career of over 40 years in the entertainment industry
Frank Darabont Net Worth $15 Million
Soon after Frank’s birth, the family moved to the United States. Darabont grew up in Los Angeles and decided to pursue a career in film-making after having seen the film “THX 1138” by George Lucas. He decided to start working on his dream career right after graduating from Hollywood High School, and so never went to college. Soon he got his first production assistant jobs on such projects as “Hell Night”, “The Seduction” and “Trancers”. He wrote and directed his first short film entitled ‘The Woman In The Room’ in 1983, and this film got him onto the semi-finalists’ list for that year’s Oscars.
Darabont’s work quickly became noticed, and he was approached by Chuck Russel, who offered him creative collaboration, and the two went on to write a number of film scripts. One of their most successful was the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warrior”. Darabont and Russel continued writing scripts until 1990, when Darabont’s directorial debut, a TV film called “Buried Alive” was released on the USA Network. However, alongside his directorial career, Darabont kept working as a screen writer, and among other projects, he wrote for the television series “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”.
Author Stephen King was impressed by Darabont’s early adaptation of one of his stories, and subsequently granted him the rights to another of his works, “The Shawshank Redemption”, which was only a moderate success at the box office, but was greatly acclaimed by critics, and for which Darabont received seven nominations at the Academy Awards in 1995, including for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Darabont’s later achievements include “The Green Mile” (1999), another Stephen King adaptation, which is the highest grossing movie of all of Stephen King’s adaptations, it which took an impressive total of $286 million at the box office worldwide. Other highly successful works of Darabont are “The Mist” (2007), a horror movie that was very well received by critics, and the first season of “The Walking Dead”, a TV series based on a comic book of the same name. The series was very popular and received many positive reviews, however, Darabont was made redundant in 2011 due to budget cuts and irreconcilable differences with the executives of the TV channel that ran the series, which Frank claimed left him millions of dollars short in payments.
Soon after parting from “The Walking Dead”, Daramont was hired to develop a new TV series, called “Mob City”. He felt very enthusiastic about the project and cast a number of his regular actors as he believed the project would be successful. However, “The Mob” only ran one season in 2013 before it was cancelled despite mostly positive critics’ reviews.
One of Darabont’s latest works is the 2014 version of Godzilla. He rewrote the screenplay for the movie, saying he wanted to picture Godzilla as a ‘terrifying force of nature’. Overall, Frank has worked on almost 30 films, and is into double figures with TV series and films too.
In his personal life, Frank is married to costume designer Karyn Wagner: they have worked together on several films
