Frank Darabont's "Indiana Jones and the City of God" Script Now Online!

Having read the whole thing, and having enjoyed the movie, I have to say that I'm glad they passed on this script. Either Darabont's or Koepp's script could have been revised and made into a better movie than the one we got, but Darabont's as is is not really better. He has Indiana get drunk and steal the idol (from Raiders) in a parody/callback of the scene from Raiders. He has Indy not scared of snakes and then get eaten alive(!) by a giant one. He doesn't have Indy's son in it, so Indy himself gets to swing on vines (twice) and have a monkey poop on his chest (really). He has Indy and Marion recreate almost word for word far too many of their lines from Raiders. He doesn't have Spalko and instead has an excessive number of bad guys that seem more or less interchangeable. He has the rocket sled sequence, he has the fridge sequence, he has the waterfall sequence too (only instead of surviving three waterfalls in a vehicle designed to be a boat they survive four waterfalls in a truck.) He has the UFO ending. He has red ants (but they're giant!) and a tree that catches the vehicle as it drives off the cliff and then springs back to wipeout pursuing bad guys. In fact he has so much that made it into the movie I feel like he should get a screen credit (and thus residual payments). To be fair I did like the way he wrote Marion, the Crystal Skull itself (no magnetism and a visual indication of what happens when you look into its eyes), the Sallah cameo and the first (but not the second - why must both Henry Joneses get drunk?) scene with Indy's father... but Sean Connery retired so that would have had to be re-written even if they had gone with this script.

Man Darabont's script sounds hideous, worse than the tripe they threw at us in the visually pretty installment #4. I'm beginning to think some other directors beside Lucas and Spielburg should be allowed to tackle an indy movie, leave harrison on it though, forget the silly little guy sidekicks, they always stink, bring back Sallah. I can't think of a film ess suited to aliens than and Indy film, a crying shame.

Well sounds like all the bad points are their. But take into account Lucas had a basic story that all the script writers had to stick to, it is plausable that he made all those decisions. Sounds to me like Lucas forgot what he started out to make, an Adventure film with supernatural elements. How can you possibly run out of ideas? Their where so many more cultures and religions for Indy to explore, Celtic, Ancient Greek etc.