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Far from looking for the Holy Grail, Indy's next adventure was originally supposed to be a horror movie, 1930's style, set in a haunted house. This odd idea came from Lucas, who commissioned Diane Thomas, the writer of Romancing The Stone, to produce a screenplay. Thomas completed her first draft shortly before her untimely death in a car crash, but the script and the horror-movie idea were both scrapped. However, elements of it found their way into the opening sequence of the next shot at Indy 3 - Chris Columbus's failed (and fabled) Monkey King script.
Lucas initially suggested making Indy III "a haunted-house movie." He had such a script written by Romancing the Stone screenwriter Diane Thomas before her death in a 1985 car accident, but, Lucas said, "Steven had done Poltergeist, and he didn't want to do another movie like that."
I never visit the "Ain't it Cool News" website unless an Indy-related link is posted here at The Raven. Each time that I've clicked on whatever link, it always leads to some groan-inducing blog.Moedred said:http://www.aintitcool.com/node/186
I remember hearing about this script leak in 1996. It finally made it out of the depths of the internet in 1997... One could argue these days it takes longer.