George Lucas: A Fifth Indiana Jones?
July 28, 2008 by Jane Boursaw
You know, I’m not really sure how I feel about a fifth Indiana Jones. The franchise has done so well — and I even loved the last movie, including the monkey scene.
I would love for it to continue if they focused on Shia LaBeouf as the young Indy taking over the reins from his old man (if Shia can keep himself out of trouble, that is).
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has earned a massive $743.7 million worldwide (#27 on the all-time worldwide list!). The Sunday Times recently asked George Lucas if he, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford would be up for a fifth film. Lucas replied:
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“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.
He adds: “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.”
All I can say is, keep Shia in the picture!
Image: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Paramount Pictures, 2008
