The Green Mile Starring Tom Hanks Begins Filming

Posted on July 31, 1998

The Green Mile, a Castle Rock Entertainment production based on the 1996 serialized novel by acclaimed author Stephen King, began principal photography in Los Angeles on July 20, 1998, it was announced by Martin Shafer, President of Castle Rock Pictures, and Liz Glotzer, President of Production. The film stars Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Sam Rockwell, Patricia Clarkson, Doug Hutchison, Jeffrey DeMunn, Barry Pepper and Michael Clarke Duncan.

Award-winning filmmaker Frank Darabont returns to the director's chair for the first time in five years to bring his second King adaptation to the motion picture screen. Darabont wrote and directed Castle Rock's acclaimed 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption which garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.

An extraordinary tale set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell block's head guard, who develops a poignant, unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous.

The Green Mile films in Los Angeles through early October, then travels to North Carolina and Tennessee, where production will conclude in late October. The film is tentatively scheduled for release next year through Warner Bros.