George Lucas Hints At Fifth Indiana Jones Flick
July 31st, 2008
George Lucas has hinted that he is considering another ‘Indiana Jones’ movie, provided he can come up with another great idea, according to reports.
Following the worldwide success of ‘Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’, Lucas told London’s Times Online about the dramas involved in getting the latest installment off the ground.
“Really, though, it was a challenge getting the story together and getting everybody to agree on it,” Lucas revealed.
“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.”
According to Thompson On Hollywood, Harrison Ford may step down as the lead in any future movies, passing the baton to Shia LaBeouf, who co-starred in ‘Skull’.
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another,” Lucas says.
“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.”
Photo courtesy of Dreamworks.
