George Lucas has gone off on his usual ramblings of a mad man, further fuelling the argument that he may well be insane and that the best thing for him to do right now would be to lock the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises into his Skywalker Ranch basement and never let them out again!
But Lucas will never do that, in fact in an interview with Times Online it sounds like he is all ready to go on an Indiana Jones V if Steven Spielberg can be convinced to do it…
“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.”
I’m in the future, Steven’s in the past!
Does that mean you’re the one who came up with the aliens plot, the swinging tarzan that was Shia LaBeouf and that awful mole thing that kept popping up?
Just where exactly is this mysterious future place you wish to take the series? And believe me folks, I’m in doubt that the problems of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out of Lucas’ portion of this hybrid.
In the interview he then goes on to call bloggers and the Internet world as “The Holy Ghost”. And then he takes a shot at Spielberg and Ford…
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.
And then finally he spoke about Red Tails…
“I’m only going to produce Red Tails — we have a black director — but then I think I am going to direct some more, make some esoteric films that have a personal significance.”
Then he comes out with this magnificent quote which tells us all we need to know about Lucas at this point in his life…
“I can’t say yet, but they’ll be personal. n fact, I’d sooner just make them and not even release them, just put them on the shelf, like ships in a bottle — ‘Oh, look, let me show you my collection.’ Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Films are a very expensive hobby. And you have to get people to want to go and see them.”
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Geez, the dude sounds like he gone mad! I’m reckoning he wants to take Indy so far in to the future that it will cross over with….ta!Da! STAR WARS!.
This jackass will never get around to making Red Tails. It will be one of those projects that he mentions in order to make people think he’s good for more than just SFX garbage, but he’ll never make it.
We went from George plans to write, producce and direct, to George plans to direct and produce, now we’ve been reduced to George plans to only produce it.
Before it’s all over we’ll hear George Lunatic announce he merely plans to see it…assuming it ever gets made. If the bastard wants to back out of the project he should just do it, but all this hemming and hawing needs to stop. 20 years in development is long enough!
George Lucas is a cunt.
I find some of these quotes quite pathetic! Spielberg wasn’t enthusiatic. Really, Can I get my money back. To me The Kingdom Of the Crystal Skull is not worthy of the Indiana Jones name. Probably summer’s most disapointing movie!
Man, George… just let it go.
I reckon that George gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror and says “hmmm, I wonder what I’ll say today to piss ‘em all off…”
He’s an emotional puppet-master. He’s duping you all and playing you like a cheap harmonica! He’s sat there laughing on Skywalker Ranch knowing that he has the power and position to drive the legions on the internet to insanity simply by issuing a press release and uttering whatever babble he can brew up in his mind.
He’ll say whatever he thinks will infuriate people. He’s doing it just for kicks!
It’s official, george Lucas now officially is a terrible film maker. You can’t take a sequel and make it completely different like to the point where its unrecognizable. I loved the first three star wars and i didn’t even bother with the 1 2 and 3 because it was stupid and looked like he got trigger happy with the effects on what he can do now oppose to what he could have done with the last one. Usually with prequels things in their universe don’t go backwards and as time goes by the inventions of certain air crafts and such don’t degrade, but maybe i’m looking way into it.
The only recipe that can work for Indy 5:
Buy out Lucas’s share of the franchise, bring Darabont back to write a decent script. Get Spielberg to shoot in the same way that he shot Crystal Skull, but lose the CGI. If it can’t be done with practical effects, scrap it.
Indy 4 wasn’t as bad as some claim, but you can see Lucas’s fingerprints over everything that was wrong with that movie.
CGI,cgi,cgi,cgi,cgi,cgi and CGI and did i mention CGI. Sorry for the overuse and slight exaggeration of CGI. But what the hell was george lucas thinking! Ridiculous Tarzan style, ewok swinging childish garbage! A sword fight between two jeeps. And please those aliens!
If only george Lucas kept this on his shelf “like a ship in a bottle” Never to waste our time and space. QUOTE :”FILMS ARE A VERY EXPENSIVE HOBBY. AND YOU HAVE TO GET PEOPLE TO WANT TO SEE THEM.” Listent to yourself Lucas!
People are smarter than what George Lucas thinks. If he does decide to make a number 5 installement of Indiana Jones. I for one won’t subject my mind again to such mindless insanity in a film. Once bitten by a snake mate. Twice shy.
The strange thing is Transformers was full of cgi. A Speilberg movie. Terminator 2 cgi. A James Cameron movie. Why did those movies work.
Well for one, even though far fetched. It was grounded and believable. You felt the tension and mood of these films and the cgi felt part of the film too.
Detatched from any sense of reality is one way you can describe crystal skull. Mindeless, pointless plot, A script in parts that made you cringe and question why you wanted to stay and watch it.
Karen Allen as good as she was in the first film. (probably the best Indy girl ever) Seemed shallow in her cast. that feisty bite she had was gone. you had a good sense of her character in the first film. but thanks to her ridiculous script and action sequences it was lost.
Where was the great threat of evil villains, who would stop at nothing in pursuit of artifacts. well there was an enemy. But that tension between hero and villain was nonexistent and felt like a made for tv afterschool kids series. More corny than believable.
That threat, danger and sense of mystical adventure that made you sit up and think what if. And just maybe that could happen. was missing from this movie.
Some of you call it a fun movie. but it aint a Indiana Jones movie. Boring and corny. Definetley far fetched and fake.
If it wasn’t for Fords solid performance and a hint of Speilberg flavour i dread at how much worse this movie would have been.
The fake torture wrenched cgi went to the end of this movie. A spectacular fake climax. lets hopping the fakeness ends here. resurrect it to it’s glory days once again. C.mon Speilberg stop Lucas’s insanity.
george lucas is a nerdy fossil of the past. He needs to lay off spielbarg who helped put out transformers which was one the best movies ever. Bat Man is for cool people, star wars is for old geeks. I am glad Bat Man now reigns on top and if they want to talk about adjusted prices just think about how when star wars came out there was no internet downloading and bootlegs so Bat Man still wins despite the adjusted bull crap. lucas you suck, you suck, you suck you fat old nerdy looking fossil.