what was the shawshank redemption based on
Written and directed by: Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.nd no good thing ever dies. The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 film about a banker named Andy Dufresne, who is accused of double murder in the 1940s and begins a life sentence at the fictional Shawshank prison, where he befriends an older inmate named Red.