Originally posted by: Jumpman
Mike O,
The problem is still Frank. Lucas hasn't said one thing about Darabont's script in public...not one. He's kept his mouth shut and decided to go into a different direction....with Spielberg's approval (no matter Spielberg's true feelings on the situation). Frank has been going on and on about his script for years now. It's time for him to get over it. What's the point of harping on it again, even if he was just asked a question....?
Frank just needs to let it ago. All he had to do when asked by Lucas if he wanted to write the script or not was to decline it. This is what happens when you're a writer for hire. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. End of story, really.
Mike O,
The problem is still Frank. Lucas hasn't said one thing about Darabont's script in public...not one. He's kept his mouth shut and decided to go into a different direction....with Spielberg's approval (no matter Spielberg's true feelings on the situation). Frank has been going on and on about his script for years now. It's time for him to get over it. What's the point of harping on it again, even if he was just asked a question....?
Frank just needs to let it ago. All he had to do when asked by Lucas if he wanted to write the script or not was to decline it. This is what happens when you're a writer for hire. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. End of story, really.
Lets give that writer for hire alittle more credit, since he did do that movie The Shawshank Redemption, and I think a very underrated The Green Mile. Sure Darabount is a writer for hire, but he is more then some slub on the street that Lucas/Spielberg was looking for, this guy has a reputation.
The bottom line is George does what he does, and he has the power to do that, and that sad irony is that it is his ultimate unduing because it is exposing his flaws that not many OT fans ever even thought from 77-83. I want to reiterate the man was God to me until after I saw AOTC, and I realized this is two turkeys he has wrote and directed, WTF? The PT is more George Lucas then the OT is now when it is all said and done, and that is the main reason why it is inferior. Lucas legacy to his fans is tarnished no matter what anyone says, because you ask 95% of SW fans before 1997, they would defend George to wits end, now I shake my head and say, "Here we go again."