Happy Birthday: Frank Darabont

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frankdarabont.jpgFrank Darabont

Born: January 28, 1959 in Montbéliard, Doubs, France

[on his rejected script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (aka Indiana Jones 4)] Steven [Steven Spielberg] was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). That’s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you’re working on as much as I love the “Indiana Jones” films. And then you have George Lucas read it and say, “Yeah, I don’t think so, I don’t like it”. And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only…

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