The Green Mile, a 1999 movie directed by Frank Darabont, is based on Stephen King’s book of the same name. The story, which is set in 1935 on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, is told ...

The role of John Coffey in the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Green Mile” called for someone huge — 7 feet tall, around 350 pounds. Big just wasn’t going to be good enough.