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moist-pouch t1_j2c1sdq wrote

From May 2021 article

The filmmaker was recently a guest on Post Mortem with Mick Garris and Darabont was asked if he has "thrown up his hands" and given up on directing and he revealed that his time is better spent with his family and friends rather than behind the camera:

"To a degree, yeah. I can't tell you how many times I burned out. I was a workaholic machine for thirty years. I just thought, I don't want however much time I have left, I don't want the next 20 years to go by. Nobody ever laid on their death bed and said, 'Gee, I wish I had had some more deadlines."

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https://www.joblo.com/frank-darabont-quitting-directing/

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Metal64Game t1_j2c60mz wrote

Wrote the Indiana Jones 4 script, Spielberg liked it, George Lucas canned it for Crystal Skull.

Made one the best first seasons of a TV show ever, was fired for it by AMC.

Then made a noir show for TNT, while good, no one really watched it and it got cancelled after 1 season.

And these are the failed projects we know about. I'm not surprised he quit the industry, his talent and time has been tossed out time and time again. I don't know what it's like to make some of your best work only to be burned for it, but at some point you must think to yourself "fuck this shit" and never look back

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CherryDarling10 t1_j2dbf6m wrote

Is there a copy of his Indy 4 script floating around somewhere? I’d love to give it a chance.

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martianlawrence t1_j2e5g4l wrote

I have a friend who met him and frank said he was developing episode 1 of Star Wars and had a fleshed out vision of the Anakin trilogy but it got canned

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grambleflamble t1_j2ewef8 wrote

Film is fucking grueling. Production takes over your whole life, and there’s zero down time as a director. I don’t blame him for hitting his limit and wanting to make a change for his family.

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