{"id":250,"date":"2006-08-21T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/indy-4-developments\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T14:04:10","slug":"indy-4-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/08\/21\/indy-4-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy 4 Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK film magazine\u00a0Empire<\/a> are celebrating the\u00a025th anniversary of the start of the Indiana Jones trilogy with a commerative issue. They recently caught up with original producer George Lucas<\/strong> and director Steven Spielberg<\/strong>. George has some rather worrying news for fans:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re basically going to do The Phantom Menace<\/strong>\u201d, says Lucas (stay with him here, he\u2019s making a point). People\u2019s expectations are way higher than you can deliver. You could just get killed for the whole thing\u2026We 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\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he goes on:<\/p>\n

\u201cI discovered a McGuffin,\u201d continues Lucas, still reluctant to name said McGuffin. \u201cI told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it\u2019s the best one we\u2019ve ever found\u2026 Unfortunately, it was a little too \u2018connected\u2019 for the others. They were afraid of what the critics would think. They said, \u201cCan\u2019t we do it with a different McGuffin? Can\u2019t we do this?\u201d and I said \u201cNo\u201d. So we pottered around with that for a couple of years. And then Harrison really wanted to do it and Steve said, \u201cOkay\u201d. I said, \u201cWe\u2019ll have to go back to that original MacGuffin and take out the offending parts of it and we\u2019ll still use that area of the supernatural do deal with it\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spielberg says:<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it will be different in all the right ways and the same in all the familiar ways\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just don’t do it guys. Instead of rehashing and tainting the originals why not create a totally new character and surprise us with a\u00a0completely different trilogy for the modern age?<\/p>\n

> Official site for the Indiana Jones trilogy<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for Indiana Jones 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK film magazine\u00a0Empire are celebrating the\u00a025th anniversary of the start of the Indiana Jones trilogy with a commerative issue. They recently caught up with original producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg. George has some rather worrying news for fans: \u201cWe\u2019re basically going to do The Phantom Menace\u201d, says Lucas (stay with him here, he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}