Adapting a King work also looks pretty good on a budding filmmaker's portfolio. Three time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont is the most notable dollar, baby. In 1980, he was granted permission to adapt The Woman in the Room. Though it took him about three years to complete the film, King was impressed enough with the final result that in the decades since, Derebont has gone on to adapt The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist