For a film that doesn't even seem to be close to getting made yet, Indiana Jones 4 sure is attracting a whole lot of hype, and that's continuing with a George Lucas/ Steven Spielberg/ Harrison Ford interview by Empire magazine.
And, of course, it's only right that people are excited by all this Indiana Jones 4 talk. After all, with the current creative form of the three Indiana Jones ringleaders, who wouldn't want to watch a constantly-postponed third sequel to a 25-year-old movie brought to you by the people who made The Terminal, Firewall and the last three Star Wars prequels?
A cynic might suggest that by the time Indiana Jones 4 comes out, nobody will really want to watch it. Its swashbuckling star Harrison Ford will be pushing 70, which will rule out any hardcore action scenes. Unless the movie is called Indiana Jones And The Lovely Mug Of Cocoa, audiences are going to have to suspend their disbelief like never before. Plus these days George Lucas is now mostly famous for making Darth Vader go "Noooooo!" at the end of the last Star Wars film, Steven Spielberg is mostly famous for wanting to make a film about temporal signatures of gravity-waves and Harrison Ford isn't really famous at all.
It seems like ages ago that the Indiana Jones 4 script was finally approved, and the film seems to have been mostly used as bait to make people go and see other rubbish Harrison Ford movies, but a new interview with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford published in Empire to mark the 25th anniversary of Indiana Jones shows that Indiana Jones 4 is closer than ever. That's so long as they can decide what the movie is actually going to be about, though, as George Lucas cryptically explains:
"I discovered a McGuffin. I told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it's the best one we've ever found… Unfortunately, it was a little too ‘connected' for the others. They were afraid of what the critics would think. They said, "Can't we do it with a different McGuffin? Can't we do this?" and I said "No". So we pottered around with that for a couple of years. And then Harrison really wanted to do it and Steve said, "Okay". I said, "We'll have to go back to that original McGuffin and take out the offending parts of it and we'll still use that area of the supernatural do deal with it."
Oh man, what's the point of going to see Indiana Jones 4 now that George Lucas has so clearly explained the plot? Although the other two aren't quite so vocal about Indiana Jones 4 as George Lucas, neither of them are giving much away. Steven Spielberg tells Empire:
"Hopefully it will be different in all the right ways and the same in all the familiar ways."
While Harrison Ford says:
"There's a good chance it will happen. There are things left for this character to do."
And if this sort of muddled low-level burble about Indiana Jones 4 hasn't put you off going to see the movie, then maybe this final George Lucas quote will do the trick:
"We're basically going to do The Phantom Menace."
In your own words, George, Nooooooo!
Read more:
Spielberg, Lucas And George Talk New Indiana Jones – Access Hollywood
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Levon Tostig says
Internal title: “Indiana Jones and the Masonic Temple of Doom”
(sorry to give away the McGuffin, Georgie boy… consider it payback for birthing Jar Jar Binks)
LT