A beloved horror director was responsible for some of the best adventures of Indiana Jones
Great horror directors tend to excel in making superhero films. We have seen the proof of that moment now, with Sam Raimi, Scott Derrickson, James Wan and James Gunn having all delivered high-level films involving beneficial to Spandex. Here again, since horror is undoubtedly the most flexible genre of the market, it may be expected that those who specialize in the collapse of people’s socks are just as capable of the development of thrills in general, and not only to the variety of superheroes.
Take Steven Spielberg, who may be the greatest horror director that no one really considers a “horror director”. Although he has not yet directed an image of honest superheroes to the good, his films “Indiana Jones” perfectly mix spectacular sets with sequences with white mine and moments of horror of pure pulp and purely impregnated with a good face. Really, it does not look like a good adventure of Indiana Jones without really horrible things in the mix, which is why Bill Bria of the film said (correctly) that “the nun II” and “the film” of the pope’s exorcist “share the mutual honor to be otherwise decent” Indiana Jones and The Dial of Duttiny “of the destination”.
Indeed, when the creator of “Indiana Jones” George Lucas began to work on his television series “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” in the early 1990s, he also ended up recruiting a cavalcade of people renowned for their ability to give viewers a shock to work on his individual episodes. But while this programming included directors like Nicolas Roeg (“Don’t Look Now”, “The Witches”) and Joe Johnston (“Honey, I have shrunk children”, “Jurassic Park III”), few of them contributed as much to the spin-off / prequel as Frank Darabont.
Frank Darabont has written several young episodes of Indiana Jones (and almost wrote an Indiana Jones film)
Given the work of man, we would probably have all had to see the heartbreaking adaptation of Darabont of Stephen King’s “Mist”. He was, after all, the same guy who gave us several frightening moments of prisoners assaulted viciously in “The Shawshank Redemption”, as well as the equally devastating scene where the sweet condemned of Michael Clarke Duncan reveals who reveals who reveals who Really committed the horrible crime he was accused of doing in “The Green Mile”. Going up even further, of course, Darabont had already won his good horror matter by writing both “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” and the deeply disgusting (complementary) version of “The Blob”.
Unfortunately, Darabont’s career was finally turned upside down when its race acclaimed as an original showrunner on another horror project, “The Walking Dead”, reached a premature end halfway in the second season of the Zombie Uber-Hit series. (It was so appreciated that some actors “Walking Dead” came out shortly after solidarity.) Fortunately, however, his adventure prior to television with “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” went much better, because he ended up writing a big piece of the series well received. This includes “Travels With Father”, an episode focused on Indy and his father who made our list of essential episodes of “Young Indiana Jones”, and roughly, because he expands the complicated relationship of the duo, lending more emotional weight to their strange buffoonemeries in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in progress.
Really, Darabont seems to have a good understanding of what means that the franchise “Indiana Jones” holds as a whole, as evidenced by her unused scenario with regard to “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull”. His draft, which I read and is entitled “City of Gods”, had both some of the good things of this film (like Indy being a timeless hero in the first era of the Cold War) and the bad (like, yes, the Nuke-Fridge scene), but also made the former flame of Indy, a player more active in the plot, presented ex-Nazis instead of the main threat instead of the main threat instead of the And, the best, did not include the Son of India!
Darabont argued for a long time that it was Lucas who put the Kibosh on his “City of Gods” script, and honestly? Even as a person who defended “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” as being better than you remember, I agree that Lucas should have trusted his old friend Frank and let him work his magic on man in the Fedora.
