The same year "Shawshank" was released, "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", which Darabont wrote, was also released. The film was met with mixed reviews and Darabont called it the worst experience in his career as a writer as he had considered it the best script he had ever written, but that director Kenneth Branagh ruined it "every step of the way". He went on to say that "you can't really judge the script based on what you saw on the screen. It got rephrased and messed with every inch of the way." Guillermo Del Toro has shown interest in adapting Darabont's draft of the "Frankenstein" script when he gets around to filming his own version of the story, calling the draft a "near perfect" adaption of the original book.