last I heard they were working on the script. It has taken so long because finding a script that both Lucas and Spielberg liked was very difficult.
I just found this online.
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Paramount Pictures presents
a Lucasfilm LTD. production.
Production status: Pre-production
Release date: summer 2008
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Story by: George Lucas
Screenplay by: Jeff Nathanson & David Koepp
Executive Producer: George Lucas
Produced by: Frank Marshall
Starring:
Harrison Ford .... Indiana Jones
“We just keep working on it. You know, we just write
and write and write and write and write. But we are
getting closer, and hopefully this year we will have a
start date and we will have a script that we all love
and hopefully it will come out next year.”
- George Lucas -
(MTV.com - January 18, 2006)
I lOVED the Indiana Jones movies. They were wonderful. I remember lining up around the block to see the Last Crusade.
Ooo old age is creeping up on me. It was Temple of Doom that I lined up to see in 1984 at a huge theater. It seated several hundred, kind of like an auditorium. All my friends went with me and nothing is more fun than a bunch of 16 year olds in line for the movie.
There is just something special about Indy. I watched the movies again three years ago when we had the wildfires here. My nephew brough his movie collection, and we sat up watching them together. It was great to see that someone young enjoyed the movies as much as I did.
I think that a movie like Zoom has a more board appeal than this honestly. It has something to offer for all ages, where as this is more of a grownup movie.
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- George Lucas said Friday that filming of the long-awaited "Indiana Jones" movie will begin in 2007.
Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks, the last one coming in 1989, is set to star again.
Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film.
"It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet," the 62-year-old filmmaker said during a break from preparing for his duties as grand marshal of Monday's Rose Parade.
Exact film locations have not been decided yet, but Lucas said part of the movie will be shot in Los Angeles.
The fourth chapter of the "Indiana Jones" saga, which will hit theaters in May 2008, has been in development for over a decade with several screenwriters taking a crack at the script, but it only recently gained momentum.
Lucas kept mum about the plot, but said that the latest action flick will be a "character piece" that will include "very interesting mysteries."
"I think it's going to be really cool," Lucas said.
At the inaugural Rome Film Festival in October, the 64-year-old Ford said he was excited to team up with Lucas and Spielberg again for the fourth "Indiana Jones" installment. Ford said he was "fit to continue" to play the title role despite his age. (Gallery: Harrison Ford's career)
Ford played Indiana Jones in 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1984's "Temple of Doom" and 1989's "The Last Crusade."
Lucas praised Ford for breathing life into his character.
"Mostly it's the charm of Harrison that makes it work," he said
Details about the title or the story line haven’t been disclosed but earlier this year Lucas told Empireonline.com, "I discovered a McGuffin. I told the guys about it and they were a little dubious about it, but it's the best one we've ever found.
“Unfortunately, it was a little too 'connected' for the others.
“They were afraid of what the critics would think. They said, 'Can't we do it with a different McGuffin? Can't we do this?' and I said 'No.' So we pottered around with that for a couple of years. And then Harrison really wanted to do it and Steve said, 'Okay.' I said, 'We'll have to go back to that original McGuffin and take out the offending parts of it and we'll still use that area of the supernatural to deal with it.' "
What's a McGuffin? This whole deal here just went over my head. What am I missing?
A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or Maguffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story.
The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "[W]e have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers."
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HECK! said this in post #10 : A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or Maguffin) is a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story.
The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Hitchcock explained the term in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: "[W]e have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is always the necklace and in spy stories it is always the papers."
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-HECK!
Well now, put that together with what he said, and it must be about "the Ark of the Covenant".
08-01-2006 04:14 PM
Then it's a name of honor.
