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Frank Darabont Directing 'Law Abiding Citizen'
Published 5/16/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Thrillers, Deals, Mystery & Suspense, NewsstandAccording to Screen Daily, Law Abiding Citizen now has a director in Frank Darabont. Citizen is the first movie to be produced under Gerard Butler's production shingle; you can read all about Evil Twins and its upcoming slate here (I am gently encouraging you to be interested in this fledgling company). Production is set to begin on August 18th in Detroit, which I hear is becoming the new Shreveport. It's being filmed on a shoestring budget of $40 million, and the screenplay has been penned by Kurt Wimmer. The plot has been changed quite ...

Darabont Returns To Prison
Published 5/20/2008 at Cinema Blend News
... for Indy 4 he was the writer originally hired to write the script. Spielberg and Ford loved what he came up with, but Lucas infamously rejected it, hiring David Koepp to write something else. It’s hard not to wonder if Darabont’s take might have been better. Maybe he’d at least have had the sense not to do that weird bit with the refrigerator. You’ll know what I mean when you see it. We’ll never get to watch Darabont’s Indiana Jones movie, but he’s moved on. According to ScreenDaily he’s directing a thriller called Law Abiding Citizens . The movie is about a criminal ...