George Loser, err... Lucas


[Submitted by lioncourt on November 8, 2006, 12:53 am]

If you liked the Indiana Jones films and has been salivating for a 4th installment, blame George Lucas if ever all your hopes of seeing Harrison Ford as Indie Jones be quashed because the guy, (George, not Harrison) just killed our chance of ever seeing him (Harrison, not George) onscreen ever again.

As per screenwriter John Darabont:

    "That was terrifically frustrating. I worked for over a year on that; I worked very close with Steven Spielberg. He 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. Lucas read it and said, '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."

If Steven Spielberg is ecstatic about the script then it must be really good. Either Steven Spielberg has lost his touch or George Lucas (the man who brought us the crappy Star Wars prequels) is just a plain total idiot.

>:-D