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Indiana Jones & The City of the Gods.pdf
Indiana Jones & The City of the Gods.zip (140 SCRIPT PAGE JPEGS)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37049

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http://www.mediafire.com/?1pfzjtexmym

Alright all links here we go. By the way I used the same AICN mediafire link you did and put in a mirror on the original post. The PDFScreenplays site got traffic bombed.

I'm working on a JPEG version right now. Lets get readin'.

I'm printing it out.

Darabont's script online in both PDF and now JPEG format. There are 140 pages. bfett's initial post has been updated with the first three pages from the JPEG .zip variant.

P18: and so far, Crystal Skull's opening sequence felt more like a Jones flick than this does.

P26: and it's a far worse opening sequence than KOTCS. AICN and other sites have said that Yuri is a better substitute for Mac how? It would make more sense for Indy to have an old British war buddy than a Russian. There's more of a IJ relic mystery to the opening in KOTCS than there is here, though I would say that both of these scripts don't really make the opening sequence a final act in true serial form like the first 3 did.

P57: and for all Darabont's self promoting that his script was unbelievable, he looks like a fucking tool from what I've read here. This script comes off like a mystery movie with Indy playing a P.I, not an archeologist. I'll continue to edit as I read.

P80: best line of the script so far - Marion: What's a matter Jones, jealous? Indy: No, nauseous.

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Alright so basically I felt like I was half watching the 'Lost World' with the whole expedition plot. The airplane sequence could have been an interesting action sequence, but it would have been litterred with CGI and particularly unbelieveable considering Harrison's age. For every person that thought it was rediculous to see Indy jump between ducks travelling at mid-speed and whip-swing into a truck at 65, twenty more would roll their eyes at Darabont's action scenes - especially since it would rely almost exclusively on doubles both human and CG.

There's WAY too many nods to the earlier films through dialogue in City of Gods, not to mention that rediculous idol scene. Also nothing is really made about Indy's age. The wedding scene would have been cringe-inducing to no end and having Henry Sr. in the movie was pointless.

A good chunk of it just didn't feel like an Indiana Jones movie. Some parts do work - I think the skull in City of Gods is a more terrifying macguffin and I loved the human sacrifice stuff in this one (it sure would satisfy the 'mild gore' element of the previous Indy flicks) - but KOTCS kept the stakes clear the whole way through and narrowed the conflict to Soviet KGB v. Indy/U.S.

I guess now that I've read this I feel better about Koepp's script. I still would have liked the skull to be a bit more terrifying like it was in City of Gods and not just a plot device to open doors and scare away ants and Akator warriors. This much is clear - Koepp's set pieces seemed to make a lot more sense than Darabont's.

I'm not sure if this is could be considered a spoiler but just in case - more STAR WARS LINES

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OXLEY/ALIEN:

WE ARE THE ONES WHO FELL FROM THE HEAVENS. WE ARE THE HEPHALIM. WE ARE THE RUBEZAHL. WE ARE THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY. YOUR KIND HAS GIVEN US MANY NAMES. YOU MAY WORSHIP US.


INDIANA:

Uh, thank you...
(glances to others)

...your Worshipfulness.
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I ran out of black ink.

Started printing in dark blue.

There is a '1138' reference on page 8.

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The Good
The Thin Man and Indy's reason for traveling to Peru.
Indy reminiscing about his treasures with "Marcus." Though the Idol switch was unneccesary.
Henry Jones, Sr. He has the best dialogue so far.

The Bad
The opening is incredibly weak. Indy basically lacks any introduction at all; he's just there. At least Temple of Doom made him look cool.
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I'll edit in more as I read along.

I finished reading and I'm honestly glad Lucas passed on this script. I definitely like KotCS better.

Just a few thoughts:

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One thing I did like was that the whole treason subplot was carried through more of the story and not just dropped.

I didn't care for the set pieces much, I think KotCS did better. The place sequence might have been cool but with some moments of unbelievability with Indy wing walking and switching planes.

The ending sequence is similar but taken to an extreme. It's funny some people criticised the alien bit at the end of KotCS as too much, less would have been more but it turns out it was much less than Darabont's version. Again I like the film version better.

Another CS criticism was too many characters but Darabont's had even more and none really stuck out to me. I'm glad we got Mutt in the final film.[/align]
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Still, it's always cool to be able to read the different drafts to see the creative process and evolution of a film.

So...

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and lifts him into the air. It brings Oxley face to face,
vapor swirling between their mouths as it starts to suck
Oxley's life force out...

INDY (O.S.)
Hey.

...and the alien pauses, turning. Indy is shouldering the
carbine, taking careful aim, finger on the trigger —

INDY
Welcome to Earth.
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...is it possible that Frank Darabont never actually saw Independence Day, or did he just think no one else would remember one of its few memorable lines?

To be fair, Independence Day used Will Smith slang. Welcome to Erf.

All the hype and humping over this script seems pretty silly now. Regardless of how you feel about KOTCS, I believe it's pretty clear Koepp's is the better of these two scripts. I have to wonder what Darabont was thinking when he wrote that opening scene. It isn't anything like the opening to an Indiana Jones movie. Too many bad lines throughout with lousy references. The finale is also ridiculous.

I must say both are pretty terrible.

Sorry, this is way better.

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There are a few minor issues but nothing so stupid as Shia getting racked in the nuts by jungle foliage. Christ, Lucas is a dumbass. Darabont wrote a great script. There are no loose ends, and the crystal skull isn't used as a lame deus ex machina, either.

The climax was also much more satisfying, as Indiana Jones actually DID SOMETHING. Oh, and the deaths were awesome, the kind of grisly deaths you expect from an Indiana Jones film. And man did I hate Yuri! That son of a BITCH! When Indy decked him at the end it felt good, even just reading the words.[/align]
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Yuri to Indy: See you around!

Indy nails Yuri with the "all-time haymaker of punches"*.

Indy: Not if I see you first. . . get off my plane --err---I mean, stay out of my country!

Yuri (laughing): It was a hell of a chase my friend! Adventure still has a name![/font]

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And here ends, the worst line of this script (and of all time). You can almost picture Harrison Ford looking at Karen Allen with a confused 'wtf' face in the finished film - "what the fuck is that guy talking about?".

Besides the evil alien (our answer to why the film was once called 'Indy And The Destroyer Of Worlds') being essentially Gozer from Ghostbusters** ("Are you a God?"), this script did nothing to add to the Indy mythos - which (like it or not) Indy 4 did by referencing Indy's age and giving him a family - and don't tell me that he got one in this script just because he married Marion - marriage is just a certificate.

This script reads as an extreme remake/reimagining of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' to be directed by Tim Burton (in 'Planet of the Apes' mode) - "instead of an ark, we will have an alien skull, and instead of a warehouse at the end, the crazy professor will have powers and live on an alternate earth filled with apes". I

will agree that this script takes itself more seriously then the film we got - but I'm not sure that that was the film I would have wanted. I didn't want this movie to be better than 'Raiders'...if the sequels were standard issues of 'Action Comics', then 'Raiders' is the 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' of the Indy universe - the one time where the shit really did hit the fan and things got serious - and I want to keep it that way. T

he events in the other films were just 'close shaves'. Also, thank god we never had to see Sean Connery embarrass himself in the final scene of this script - totally out of character, Henry Jones Sr. wouldn't drink ginger ale, let alone liquor.

Here are some alternate quotes for the film swipped from taglines on Indy posters:

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[font=Courier New]Marion: This truly is the return of the great adventure!

Sallah: I'm having the adventure of my life, keeping up with the Joneses! They are crazy![/font]

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* Is Frank Darabont a time traveller from the 1920's? This reminds me of that interview where Harrison Ford said things like 'chock-a-block filled with action' and 'Ben Affleck was a cracking in 'Sum Of All Fears'.

** Has Frank Darabont not seen any movies before? First Independence Day theft, now Ghostbusters? This guy needs to spend less time reading Stephen King books and more time living. . .love 'The Mist' though.

I think it's a great line because people have never really associated it with Indiana Jones all that much. It only appeared in the Temple of Doom trailer and on the poster a couple times if I'm correct.

It's a fine tag line, but it has no place as a line of dialog in a film. You can type that shit, but you sure as hell can't say it. I have to disagree about its recognition factor - I feel like any promotional material relating to the films used that line as a jump-off point, and I can remember hearing it as a kid when they were promoting Young Indy and the VHS set. Adventure does have a name, and it's certainly Indiana Jones - but I'm sure he doesn't need another character to tell him that in a feature film.

Those references to the previous movie tag lines are terrible. So glad they didn't go with this script.

Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, I've decided NOT to endorse your park.

Hammond: So have I.

Grant: But I must say, this sure was an ADVENTURE 65 MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING.

That has me wondering if there was anything in later drafts that influenced Connery's decision to stay retired.

Nice

Do we know how legit this is? I haven't read the whole thing yet, but scanning through some of the dialogue is truly embarrassing and I find it hard to believe this was written by a professional writer. If it is legit, it's no wonder they asked for a re-write.

Moriarty over at AICN confirmed its the real deal - or at least, its the script he had read years ago.

I do think the skull itself is treated better in City of Gods; It's much more mysterious, scary and threatening. As Raiders as the ending is, I like it a little more than Crystal Skull (as far as the horror elements are concerned) though I prefer the spaceship blasting off than simply failing and exploding in a nuclear detonation. Like I said, the human sacrifice stuff to feed the aliens/Gods is clever and very Spielberg.

That was absolutely brilliant. And creepy. Of course Lucas is all about the opposite nowadays.

Why is it a Lucas thing? You realize he didn't write KOTCS right? You also realize the whole story/macguffin was his idea, right? And that you don't even know what was cut from Koepp's script in the final product, especially considering that Spielberg's infamous for ruthless cuts. We're very quick to give Spielberg a pass, when really he wasn't at his sharpest in the second half of this film.

It's a rediculous double standard.

Remember:

Darabont has Indy not afraid of snakes only to then have him eaten by a giant one. Darabont has Indy doing the vine-swinging (twice) and a monkey shitting on his chest. Darabont has a lizard sunning itself instead of a prairie dog. Darabont has Indy get drunk and steal the idol back from a museum. Darabont has them falling down four (not 3) waterfalls in a truck not even designed to serve as a boat and surviving. Darabont has the UFO ending WITH a more rediculous nuclear ending. Darabont has them driving off a cliff and landing in a tree which snaps backward and kills the pursuing baddies. Darabont has the surviving a nuclear bomb in the fridge scene too. The only thing Darabont doesn't have is Mutt (who as it turns out was one of the film's bright spots) and Spalko (who is instead replaced by faceless and cliche villains).

It's a good call. If Darabont's script had made it to the screen, there are a few lines that would've been so embarrassingly bad that I think people would have got up en masse and left. I'm happy with the Koepp version of the script - the foundation is generally strong, most of the dialogue is good, what prevents KOTCS from making the leap from an enjoyable popcorn flick (Temple of Doom) to a really, really well-made popcorn flick (Raiders, Last Crusade) is a misfiring on the tone of the film's final act - well, more specifically, the Jungle Chase. That sequence - which should have been the most memorable of the film, but ultimately falls short - aims for laughs too often and intensity too rarely. As a result, the momentum gathered from a really well-done first half of the film does not build to the climax as well as it should have.