Darabont has been harping this for a while now. It seems to be a bit of a clash of ego's personally but i just don't see the importance of Lucas. If Speilberg was ecstatic and said it was the best script he had read since Raiders--i mean come on!--then why hold back? What ever happened to directors have complete creative control, as the Lucas mantra goes? I guess that only applies when its him in the directors chair.

And yeah, the darabont quotes in my book come from 2000. At that time he was top in the running for co-writing Attack of the Clones, and then he was in talks to develop Indy 4. I don't think he was simply sucking up though, but i do think he is being a bit harsh on Lucas now, seeing as things like that happen all the time. Its refreshing to see someone calling him on a bad choice though.