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The neverending development of Indy IV

Frank Darabont says George Lucas nixed his script:

[Spielberg] was ecstatic with the result and was ready to shoot it two years ago. He was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark. That’s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you’re working on as much as I love the Indiana Jones films.

And then you have George Lucas read it and say, ‘Yeah, I don’t think so, I don’t like it.’ And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only get so emotionally invested and have the rug pulled out from under you before you say enough of that.

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Here we go again…

George Lucas talks to Empire Magazine about Indy 4. Key quote:

“We’re basically going to do The Phantom Menace”, says Lucas (stay with him here, he’s making a point). “People’s expectations are way higher than you can deliver. You could just get killed for the whole thing…We would do it for fun and just take the hit with the critics and the fans…But nobody wants to get into it unless they are really happy with it”.

Well, yes. But don’t encourage them, George. Bringing up TPM in this context – no matter how good a point you attach to it – is just going to make the fanboys start pre-frothing.

Although, a LFL crossover I’d like to see? A golden Jar-Jar.

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The Indy box set that never was

Several blogs are reporting about ThrowMetheIdol.com’s prototype for a limited edition DVD box set of the Indiana Jones films. (It’s the last item on the page.) The prototype contained two trade paperbacks about the making of the films and a ‘best of’ CD of John Williams scores, in addition to the movies themselves.

Sounds interesting, but I don’t think they made the wrong choice by releasing only the simple 4-disc set. Although I’m certainly LFL’s willing victim when it comes to Star Wars, for Indiana Jones all I’d really want or need is the actual movies.

And hey, check this out – a Steven Spielberg fansite. Pretty nifty.

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Ford talks Indy 4

Yes again, to the Time Out London’s movie blog.

“Indiana Jones is going to be older,” Ford explained, “And the story will therefore take place in a different historical period of time. We are not going back to World War II and the Nazis but I think that it will be relatively the same type of tale – George’s special mix of Saturday matinee western serial and crypto-spiritual sort of stuff.”

Nothing really breaking, but a little insight into the process.

Meanwhile, TFN (in-between down periods) is reporting that Harrison Ford hates the internet.