It looks like Frank Darabont has got wind about the new Indy Script, and he suggests that it may contain ideas from his work that was left on the cutting room floor. We get the juicy dish from MTV Movies Blog:
Seven months after calling his work on the then-untitled “Indiana Jones 4” script “a waste of a year,” director Frank Darabont told MTV News that he’s moved on from earlier resentment. His script, favored by Spielberg, was ultimately rejected by George Lucas. And yet, to listen to Darabont, one gets the impression that there very well might soon be a feud of sorts — over credit. Insisting that he still hasn’t read “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” (scripted by “Spider-Man” writer David Koepp), Darabont again indicated that there may be more than a passing resemblance to his efforts, echoing statements he made to MTV in August.
“I haven’t read the script, [but] at a certain point I will because I’m sure there will be an arbitration over writing credits,” he revealed. “I keep hearing from people who are near the production and they keep saying, ‘You know, they’re using more of your ideas here than you may have thought.”
I love the smell of lawsuits in the morning! I do not who is to blame here, only Lucas, Speilberg and Darabont will really know the real deal right now, but once the movie is released if Darabont sends his script around the interweb it will be possible for all of us to make the connections, if any.
I hope Darabont has accurate info from the inside of production, otherwise these allegations may blow up in his face. I am not sure of this, but I would suppose that going to court with George Lucas and Steven Speilberg is never a good time, I hear they have robot lawyers.
What I will say is that if Darabont is correct in his allegations, and if his inside information is accurate, then I wish him all the luck in the world. Ideas are how he pays the bills, and he deserves his fair shake if they were ripped off. Either way Darabont has balls of legend.
