Frank Darabont’s ‘Indy IV’
I haven’t seen the new Indy movie yet, partly because I was studying for the LSAT, and also partly because I heard it wasn’t that great. Well, it turns out it could have been great: Frank Darabont (of The Shawshank Redemption and Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors fame) had a kick ass draft of the story that sounds pretty awesome.
Mystery Man does a compare and contrast (with spoilers), including the following:
34) Monkeys - Koepp’s script: bad monkey scene. Darabont’s script: good monkey scene. Koepp’s script: nothing funny about his monkey scene. Darabont’s script: the whole point of the monkey scene was to enjoy two funny gags: 1) the monkey landing on Indy’s chest as he’s hanging on for dear life on the landing gear under Marion’s plane, which makes the monkey scream, which makes Indy scream, and 2) a few seconds later, when Indy’s back in the plane, we get a great line of dialogue: “the monkey pooped on my chest.”
I love monkeys.
The actual script can be downloaded, albeit incredibly slowly, from here. Darabont is usually a good read, and this doesn’t look any different.
Via the great Alex Epstein.
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