"If I can come up with another idea that they like, we'll do another."
UK, July 28, 2008 - In spite of the critical mauling Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received, George Lucas has been discussing the possibility of a fifth film in the franchise, stating, "If I can come up with another idea that they like, we'll do another."
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Lucas said that putting together the recently released sequel was a challenge. "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", he went on, "I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys too, so it's a little hard on a practical level."
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Lucas also elaborated on the creative differences he and Spielberg have recently been experiencing. "We still have the issues about the direction we'd like to take." he explained.
"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."
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I know I've said all this a Million times before but,
"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", he went on, "I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys too, so it's a little hard on a practical level."
Star Wars (77-83) was only good because he was a nobody that professionals had some control over.
You leave Lucas to do what he wants and suddenly there's people surfing on lava, swimming through planet cores, actually saying; "you're breaking my heart", and wise old people saying "hmmm the dark side i sense in you" to Dracula looking motherfuckers who tried to execute heroes of the republic in front of a full stadium, and Senators hiring bounty hunters to hire bounty hunters to employ robots to drop of giant worms to commit regicide on a girl!
"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."
Future = green screen instead of sets and locations, distracting unrealistic silly CGI tomfoolery, no direction for actors,
Past = stunts, character development, direction, story.
And as if Fridge and a shower being the neccessary protection against a nuclear blast wasn't 100% Lucas.
Ultimatley here, he's just prooving everything I"ve ever said about him.