fuck you, george! you're no fun!
taken from rottentomatoes forums, from chud:
"Darabont on Indy 4: It Ain't Happening
"Posted Nov 7th 2006 8:01PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action & Adventure, RumorMonger, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, DIY/Filmmaking, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels
"Pretty soon we're going to be referring to it as Indiana Jones and the Most Talked About Film That Was Never Made. Well, that's if you listen to writer-director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption). Let's recap, shall we: Way back when, Darabont was asked to pen a draft of Indy 4 , which was rumored to revolve around Indiana Jones searching for UFOs or something like that. It sounds a little cheesy, but at the same time Steven Spielberg loved Darabont's script, so much so that he said it was the 'best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark .' Of course, Darabont was ecstatic -- I mean, after ten years of planning, the flick was finally going to get made ... and with his script. Wonderful. Fabulous. So what went wrong?
"Says Darabont in a recent interview with CHUD, 'And then you have George Lucas read it and say, 'Yeah, I don't think so, I don't like it.' And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts.' Tell me about it, Lucas seems fond of kicking a lot of folks in the nuts ... mainly his biggest fans. Go figure. When asked whether or not he feels Indy 4 will ever happen, Darabont shot back, 'I don't think so. I don't think so.' But, honestly, it sounds like someone had their ego bruised real bad. After his script was tossed out like that, I wouldn't be surprised if Darabont was secretly throwing down voodoo curses on David Koepp's current draft.
"However, George Lucas also needs to step off his extremely high horse and trust someone other than himself. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon, and I bet any amount of money that this delay is due to Lucas and his so-called perfectionist personality. What do you think -- will the film ever get made? Do you still care?"
dammit all to hell. why didn't lucas just die in some plausibly then-tragic 80s coke binge? if it happens tomorrow it will have been 16 years too late. why is he so eternally sour grapes? i bet he hates the original trilogy more than i hate his new one, and that's the sad part.
yeah, yeah, i'm the ungrateful fan right about now. well i was grateful for most of my life [essentially til 1999's phantom menace]. don't get me wrong, self. the world owes a lot to him, and i say as long as someone contributes one good thing, it won't matter how bad they suck at life from then on cuz the world is already a better place thanks to them.
but that fucking banana brain is off his rocker, so far off the reservation as to be declared unfit to feed himself. i don't give a rat's ass what he thinks these days. knowing he had nothing to do with frank's script does nothing but make me like it more. i don't care if it had flying saucers or dinosaurs. in fact, the more i think about it the more i think that sounds cool as shit. personally i was thinking something along the lines of a h.p.-lovecraft-meets-jones premise, but fuckit! a sci-fi twist is even wilder.
lucas needs to relinquish all control of lucasfilm and the rights to the star wars and indiana jones franchises. for the betterment of all mankind.
"Darabont on Indy 4: It Ain't Happening
"Posted Nov 7th 2006 8:01PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action & Adventure, RumorMonger, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, DIY/Filmmaking, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels
"Pretty soon we're going to be referring to it as Indiana Jones and the Most Talked About Film That Was Never Made. Well, that's if you listen to writer-director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption). Let's recap, shall we: Way back when, Darabont was asked to pen a draft of Indy 4 , which was rumored to revolve around Indiana Jones searching for UFOs or something like that. It sounds a little cheesy, but at the same time Steven Spielberg loved Darabont's script, so much so that he said it was the 'best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark .' Of course, Darabont was ecstatic -- I mean, after ten years of planning, the flick was finally going to get made ... and with his script. Wonderful. Fabulous. So what went wrong?
"Says Darabont in a recent interview with CHUD, 'And then you have George Lucas read it and say, 'Yeah, I don't think so, I don't like it.' And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts.' Tell me about it, Lucas seems fond of kicking a lot of folks in the nuts ... mainly his biggest fans. Go figure. When asked whether or not he feels Indy 4 will ever happen, Darabont shot back, 'I don't think so. I don't think so.' But, honestly, it sounds like someone had their ego bruised real bad. After his script was tossed out like that, I wouldn't be surprised if Darabont was secretly throwing down voodoo curses on David Koepp's current draft.
"However, George Lucas also needs to step off his extremely high horse and trust someone other than himself. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon, and I bet any amount of money that this delay is due to Lucas and his so-called perfectionist personality. What do you think -- will the film ever get made? Do you still care?"
dammit all to hell. why didn't lucas just die in some plausibly then-tragic 80s coke binge? if it happens tomorrow it will have been 16 years too late. why is he so eternally sour grapes? i bet he hates the original trilogy more than i hate his new one, and that's the sad part.
yeah, yeah, i'm the ungrateful fan right about now. well i was grateful for most of my life [essentially til 1999's phantom menace]. don't get me wrong, self. the world owes a lot to him, and i say as long as someone contributes one good thing, it won't matter how bad they suck at life from then on cuz the world is already a better place thanks to them.
but that fucking banana brain is off his rocker, so far off the reservation as to be declared unfit to feed himself. i don't give a rat's ass what he thinks these days. knowing he had nothing to do with frank's script does nothing but make me like it more. i don't care if it had flying saucers or dinosaurs. in fact, the more i think about it the more i think that sounds cool as shit. personally i was thinking something along the lines of a h.p.-lovecraft-meets-jones premise, but fuckit! a sci-fi twist is even wilder.
lucas needs to relinquish all control of lucasfilm and the rights to the star wars and indiana jones franchises. for the betterment of all mankind.