IndyBuff
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Raiders112390 said:We were going to have one in the 90s - probably 1997. Jeffrey Boam did the final draft of Saucermen from Mars around early 1996 and Spielberg accepted it enough to agree to do it, but then Independence Day came out and Spielberg backed off - as he felt releasing an Indy film with aliens so soon after ID4 would make them look like bandwagon jumpers. After that, Lucas turned his full attention to the Special Editions (1997), and fully committing to the idea of the Star Wars prequels (Which were shot in 1999, 2002, and 2004). Between the SW commitment, Ford's projects and Spielberg's, 2008 was the earliest we could get a new film after 1996 (especially if you take into account that the script phase probably took a year or so - so, pre-production in truth probably began in 2005/2006 and full shooting started in 2007).
So you can blame Independence Day for us not getting an Indy 4 circa 1997.
I'm fine with that, as I never cared for the full Saucermen idea anyway. If they had gone with another story then maybe things would have been different.
In any case, we're getting another one now and that has me excited.