Coming Soon got a chance to speak with George Lucas as he hit the town to present the American Cinematheque’s 23rd annual award to Samuel L. Jackson and they obviously squeezed in a couple of Indiana Jones and Star Wars related questions. Earlier this week I prepped an article talking about how the latest Indy flick was considered by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a comedy/musical when it came to Golden Globe consideration, it was going to be a snarky little article, but I abandoned it just because it felt mean spirited rather than newsworthy, but my feelings on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull remains – it was just plain bad. So, when Lucas says he is still considering a fifth film it baffles me just a smidge. Then again, I guess we can all learn from our mistakes, but then you have to wonder why Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones turned out like they did if that was the case.
When asked about Harrison Ford’s comments regarding the potential of a fifth Indy adventure Lucas told the site, “Yes – we’re looking for a “MacGuffin,” which is an object that he goes after. They’re very hard to come by!” He wasn’t as quick to commit to bringing back both Mutt (Shia LaBeouf) and Marion (Karen Black), “It really depends on what it is Indy goes looking for and then how the story falls out of that, and then how convenient or inconvenient to have the group there.”
They also asked about the proposal Lucas brought up a year or so back when he said he wanted to convert the original Star Wars trilogy into 3-D. “Oh yeah. The technology is very difficult. It exists – it’s just extremely expensive, and so what we’re trying to do is figure out a more practical way of pulling it off.”
Funny thing about the Star Wars 3-D rumor is that it was first announced back in March 2005 when Lucas wanted to have the first film ready by 2007 for the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. Yeah, that didn’t happen and at this point it doesn’t really need to.
