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With James Whitmore blackened to look like an end man in a minstrel showâa make-up that would seem a quick betrayal of the pretense he is trying to put acrossâthe film shows the abuse and mental torment to which this man is exposed when he makes a knowledge-seeking tour through the South.
Rob Reiner, who had previously adapted another King novella, The Body, into the film Stand by Me (1986), offered $2.5 million in an attempt to write and direct Shawshank. He planned to cast Tom Cruise in the part of Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Red Redding, Andy's best friend and the film's narrator; convicted of murder in 1927. 2  Before Freeman was cast, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford were each considered for the role.