Indiana Jones and the who the what now?

[moonwise]

Further proof that George Lucas is completely barking mad:

Die Hard scribe Jeb Stuart got the boulder rolling with an early-'90s script titled Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars, a stab at addressing one of Lucas' central ideas. It made sense, Lucas argued, for the first three Indy movies to imitate 1930s and '40s adventure serials, as the stories were set in that period. But with Indy older, and the setting pushed to the '50s, the genre should also switch to the sort of trope you'd find only in that later era: namely, aliens invading Earth in spaceships with the military in hot pursuit. Or so Lucas argued, to raspberries from his collaborators. ''Harrison said, 'No way am I being in a Steve Spielberg movie like that,''' recalls Lucas. ''And Steven said, 'I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.'''

Seen in Entertainment Weekly here: 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull': The Untold Story

Comments

[gojiraeight.livejournal.com]

yeah let's remember that most people, including Spielberg thought Lucas was mad when he starting making a movie called "Star Wars".

I am an unabashed die hard fan of 50's sci fi and I would have loved to watch Indy battle radioactive brains from Neptune. Like that's any more unrealistic than say The Holy Grail.

Like you can really trust Spielberg's taste anyway. While he shot down that idea he's going ahead and producing Jurassic park 4

[fourish.livejournal.com]

I think that would have been fucking awesome, too. And it might have finally taken some of the thinly veiled racism out of Indy's movies, provided they kept the aliens as radioactive brains and not dark-skinned savages. ;}

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Point taken regarding Star Wars, but I have to say that I don't really associate Indy's brand of swashbuckling with flying saucers. However, you'll get your wish in that the movie is supposed to contain some amount of its initial '50's era inspiration.