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George Lucas on a Fifth Indiana Jones

Source:The Sunday
July 28, 2008


With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull having earned a massive $743.7 million worldwide (#27 on the all-time worldwide list), The Sunday Times asked George Lucas if he, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford would be up for a fifth film:

"We were hoping for box-office figures like that, which is, ultimately, with inflation, what the others have done, within 10%," Lucas explains. "So, we squeaked up there. Really, though, it was a challenge getting the story together and getting everybody to agree on it. Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying 'I want it this way' and 'I want it that way', whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, 'We'll do it this way' — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it's a little hard on a practical level.

"If I can come up with another idea that they like, we'll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn't that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we'd like to take. I'm in the future; Steven's in the past. He's trying to drag it back to the way they were, I'm trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It's kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we'll see where we are able to take the next one."


One suggestion? A shorter title! Check out the full interview at the link above.

COMMENTS (248)

Posted by:
Order368
July 28, 2008
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo. please dont do it george the fourth one was not very good it got a 7.1 thats not a good score.
Posted by:
Fredwardtheman
July 28, 2008
I HOPE ITS BETTER . KOTCS WASNT AS GOD AS IT SHOULD OF IN MY OPINION.
Posted by:
frank franklin
July 28, 2008
uh-oh! trouble in paradise! i think four was one to many. oh, and first
Posted by:
Dan_UK
July 28, 2008
I'm not sure how to take this. I think a 5th with Harrison might actually atone for that last abortion of cinema (only if Lucas lets Spielberg hold the reigns)
Posted by:
neb965
July 28, 2008
there you have it.
Tension in the making = mediocre movie
Posted by:
shart
July 28, 2008
the new one made me shart in my pants. dear lord, please don't let them do another one and further muddle the good name of indiana jones!
Posted by:
James Dean
July 28, 2008
I can balance three empty pop cans on my erection!
Posted by:
batfan
July 28, 2008
"I'm in the future; Steven's in the past. He's trying to drag it back to the way they were, I'm trying to push it to a whole different place."

Ohhh George, you are sooooo stupid ...
Posted by:
spottedred
July 28, 2008
George isn't very good and taking movies in new directions. If they wanted to make another one, let Steven make the call. I'd probably watch it even though I wasn't that impressed with the last one.
Posted by:
ravenlordariel
July 28, 2008
OMG!!! So it was George's fault there were f***ing aliens in the movie?!? No wonder Steven Spielberg wasn't too enthused about doing it. It should have stayed in the time period Jones grew up in. I was so disappointed with the 4th movie when it turned into Indiana Jones meets E.T. That was the most ridiculous element of the movie and now a blemish on Indiana Jones' adventures. I think George should stick to producing and stay away from writing all together. Or better yet stick to putting aliens in Star Wars movies rather than trying to turn everything into Star Wars.

If they bother doing a 5th movie it sure as hell better be back to finding ancient "human" artifacts and legends and have NOTHING to do with aliens and other worldly beings.....

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