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Post by Shep on Apr 25, 2018 7:08:20 GMT -5
Is anyone else a fan of writer/director Frank Darabont? As a horror buff, I grew up with his early work (Nightmare on Elm Street 3, The Fly 2, The Blob-80s version), but like most people I really loved his Stephen King adaptations (Shawshank, Green Mile, The Mist). Also his unused screenplay for Indiana Jones 4 was much better than the script/film what we got, as was his superb Frankenstein script that Kenneth Branagh mangled.
What a pity this guy hasn't done all that much in recent years outside his lawsuit with AMC over The Walking Dead. (Hope he gets some cash btw. Season 1 was far and away the best, especially the pilot. Also, if you read those full AMC emails--and not just the media outlet soundbites--you see a guy who really cared about the show who was criticising people for subpar work).
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Post by Mod City on Apr 25, 2018 15:17:33 GMT -5
I do like a lot of Frank Durabont's work. Shawshank Redemption is easily my favorite of his film work, even if the story is incredibly different than the King story, even for as much as film translations usually change things up. It really should have been named something else, but it's a quibble for as satisfying a film as that is. The Mist was OK, but I loved the short story. The Green Mile, to me, is overrated. I just never got into it.
As for his Walking Dead spat, yeah, his first season is amazing, though I don't think the quality of the show really took a dive until well after he departed. Does he deserve tens of millions of dollars via his lawsuit? I guess I really don't know. That's what lawyers are for, after all. I know Robert Kirkman is suing AMC, as well, but still shows up on Talking Dead all the time to support the series. Weird.
Durabont seems like a guy who's just been waiting to break out with something huge on the big screen, but it just hasn't happened. The potential is definitely there, that much is clear.
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