Production Concept: Costumes, Hair and Makeup We scaled the sets and costumes way back and focused on the essence of the story and characters which proved to be a really smart decision and resulted in a production everyone was really proud of. Most schools do not have the time or budgets to create the level of detail and craftsmanship you would see in a Disney production. I did not want it to look like a cheesy replica of the original, which it would have if we had tried to replicate the designs. The intention for the design aesthetic for our production of The Lion King, Junior was to do a (mostly) non-masked production that looked very different than the iconic Julie Taymor designs, but still retained some of the scale and magic of the original production, but on a much more modest school budget. If you are just joining us here is some info you may find helpful. The previous posts will give you some insight into our design process and the set, today we are talking costumes. Instead they remain lost forever, like the Ark of the Covenant in an enormous Army warehouse filled with unmarked crates.Welcome to Part 3 of Designing Disney’s The Lion King, Junior. So not only did we lose out on a potentially great Indiana Jones sequel, we also missed out on other scripts Darabont might have written afterwards. It was just such an awful surprise, after all my hopes and effort.”ĭarabont also said that the failure of City of the Gods was “emotionally devastating” and called it a “main reason” he stopped doing work-for-hire writing gigs and began to focus entirely on projects he could control.
He and George have been close friends for a long time, and they've had an agreement for years that no Indiana Jones film will ever get made unless they both completely agreed on the script. He wasn't in a position to overrule George, and wouldn't have overruled him even if he could. Steven and I looked like accident victims the day we got that call. “George Lucas read it, didn't like it, and threw ice water on the whole thing,” Darabont recalled. That's a quote, and I'll always treasure it.” He told me it was the best script he'd read since Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Years later, Darabont said Spielberg “was ready to shoot it. Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods is a great script. So why didn’t Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford make it?Īccording to Darabont, Spielberg wanted to. Here are some of its most notable differences from the version that was made. Here are some of the most interesting differences between the two.Ī few years before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released, Frank Darabont wrote a very similar (but vastly superior) script called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods. (You don’t have to be a crusading archaeologist to find it just Google the title and it comes right up.) What is fascinating about Darabont’s Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods screenplay is not just how good it is - and it is great – but how much better it is than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (at least on paper) with an almost identical batch of story and thematic elements.
To read this script, is to understand why. “ applied all my passion and skill, and gave a script that he loved,” Darabont later said. At Spielberg’s behest, Lucas tabled the project for a while.Įnter Darabont, who joined the movie in the early 2000s and, according to him, wound up spending an entire year of his life focused on crafting an Indiana Jones script while he “worked very closely with Steven Spielberg.” But then Independence Day opened in theaters, and stole the project’s thunder before it got off the ground. Those instructions lead, in 1995, to Jeb Stuart’s Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars script, which featured some of the same elements that wound up in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - including Indy surviving a nuclear bomb test by hiding inside a lead-lined refrigerator - but was much more directly about Indy combating aliens and flying saucers. Accordingly, while Lucas cycled through multiple co-writers on the project, he kept instructing them to return to the same batch of ideas: Indiana Jones battling Russians and encountering evidence of alien life amongst ancient civilizations.
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So he relocated the series from the 1930s to the 1950s, and decided that just as the original Indy trilogy borrowed from Saturday matinee action pictures, this fourth Indiana Jones would steal from the pulp fiction of the 1950s: Namely paranoid sci-fi movies about atomic horror and alien menaces.
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READ MORE: Indiana Jones Is a Great Hero Because He Is a Total Failureįeeling they had exhausted the 1930s adventure serials milieu that had served as the basis for the original Indiana Jones concept - and recognizing that their leading man was getting older - Lucas felt a fourth movie needed to draw inspiration from a new source.
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