The film is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Mailer .
The Executioner 's Song is a 1982 made - for - television film adaptation of Norman Mailer 's 1979 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel of the same name .
The film adaptation is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Norman Mailer .
The Executioner 's Song is a 1982 made - for - television film adaptation of Norman Mailer 's 1979 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel of the same name .