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The Shawshank Redemption

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

The panel rejects a ten-episode remake but imagines individual episodes about Tommy, Heywood, Hadley, and other parts of prison life.

In the discussion (5)
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  • A participant would not support a ten-episode remake.
  • A longer version could isolate stories about Tommy, the stuttering prisoner, Hadley, and other prisoners.
  • Moving the escape to the 1967 Red Sox season is considered and rejected because the prisoners have little outside information.
  • A later sequel pitch imagines Andy and Red laundering cartel money in Mexico with Freeman and Robbins returning.
  • A Randall Stevens episode could show Andy's post-escape banking and border crossing.