What with the massive box office performance that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has brought to Paramount and Lucasfilm, we're going to frequently hear of questions of a fifth installment being thrown to George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford. The latest example is from The Sunday Times posing that very question to George Lucas. Apparently, Spielberg is more open to a fifth installment then he was initially for the fourth take of the adventurer.
"We were hoping for box-office figures like that, which is, ultimately, with inflation, what the others have done, within 10%," Lucas explains. "So, we squeaked up there. Really, though, 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.
"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."
Click the link above to read more of the interview. Indy IV is the highest worldwide performer of 2008. Since opening on Memorial Day, the film has grossed $743.7 million worldwide, $313.6 million of that being domestic numbers.
Hated the movie.
George... here's the thing, listen to Steven. Please. If you do another movie, please listen to Steven. In all things, you should always defer to Steven.
Fourth.
Unfortunately, I have it on good authority, mr. lucas has surrounded himself in a cocoon of yes men and money. This coccon inpenetrable to critism, suggestions and logic.
Given the Box Office of Indy 4, I think we can expect more of the same.
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