Indiana Jones and the who the what now?
May. 16th, 2008 04:54 pmFurther proof that George Lucas is completely barking mad:
Seen in Entertainment Weekly here: 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull': The Untold Story
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
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Date: 2008-05-17 02:06 am (UTC)I couldn't have said it better myself.