A film we never got: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
There are a lot of things wrong with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). The basic idea hails from early 2000, and getting from there to the final film was a messy process. Various scripts and re-writes were produced throughout, but the stand-out one among them is the "initial" version by Frank Darabont. This version actually came in three iterations, of which the last one has been leaked online. This one was called Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods . The final iterations of Darabont's script is far from perfect. What we know about the earlier iterations tells us that they contained some really good ideas, and some really bad ones. No matter what, although I think that the third and final script for City of the Gods was better than Crystal Skull , I also feel that it was still deeply flawed. In this (lengthy) post, I will envision how a better version of the film-that-wasn't could have come about, and what it could have been like in the...