Frank Darabont to Helm "Tokyo Rose"592
Frank Darabont to Helm "Tokyo Rose"592
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Collider got the chance to speak to screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Atonement), who revealed that his next project is writing a script for Frank Darabont (Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption) called "Tokyo Rose."
"I'm doing a film at the moment with Frank Darabont based on the story of 'Tokyo Rose,'" said Hampton. "She was a Japanese American woman who was arrested in Tokyo right after the War, brought back to San Francisco, put on trial for radio propaganda and sentenced to eight years imprisonment and she was completely innocent. It was all a witch hunt. She was absolutely innocent and eventually – in the 70's – she was given a Presidential Pardon by President Ford."
He continued: "I started off with a two hundred and something page screenplay because there was so much material and her trial happened to be the longest and most expensive in American legal history at the time – in the late 40's. There were 54 volumes of trail transcripts, six thousand pages. The contours of the story are beginning to emerge and I'm starting to know what I can throw away and what I have to keep and what I don't need."
Darabont is till working on his passion project, "Fahrenheit 451," and in order to be able to make more movies, he decided to pass the writing duties for "Tokyo Rose" to Hampton. At this point, "Rose" will begin right after Darabont is done with "Fahrenheit."
"I'm doing a film at the moment with Frank Darabont based on the story of 'Tokyo Rose,'" said Hampton. "She was a Japanese American woman who was arrested in Tokyo right after the War, brought back to San Francisco, put on trial for radio propaganda and sentenced to eight years imprisonment and she was completely innocent. It was all a witch hunt. She was absolutely innocent and eventually – in the 70's – she was given a Presidential Pardon by President Ford."
He continued: "I started off with a two hundred and something page screenplay because there was so much material and her trial happened to be the longest and most expensive in American legal history at the time – in the late 40's. There were 54 volumes of trail transcripts, six thousand pages. The contours of the story are beginning to emerge and I'm starting to know what I can throw away and what I have to keep and what I don't need."
Darabont is till working on his passion project, "Fahrenheit 451," and in order to be able to make more movies, he decided to pass the writing duties for "Tokyo Rose" to Hampton. At this point, "Rose" will begin right after Darabont is done with "Fahrenheit."
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