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Check these posts out from Spielbergfilms.com regardging an interview from the Reelz channel.http://www.spielbergfilms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5635&page=2
Interviewer: Where are you with Indiana Jones 4?
Mccallum: Well I'm not there with it at all. It's being produced by Frank Marshall who did the original films and Frank and Steven and George have been working on a script which they're very close. I think in fact George is in LA right now with Steve going through hopefully what are the last changes in it and I'm praying that it will be made if not next summer, right after that. So it's getting there, it's getting close.
Interviewer: Good
Mccallum: and it's a great story. I can't tell you what the story is, but it's great it's fantastic.
Interviewer: Do you want to tell us the story, we won't tell anyone.
Mccallum: (laughs) I can't I can't.
Moedred said:I wish we had a better source for this McCallum quote from Reelz: "George is in LA right now with Steve going through hopefully what are the last changes in it and I'm praying that it will be made if not next summer, right after that."
Because Lucas, Spielberg and the Indy 4 script in the same room is major news. "Right after that" is dispiriting, but he could mean filming in late summer or fall 2007 for 2008.
The Spielbergfilms forum groupies come across as quite intelligent, though I'm amused they are still discussing the "Saucer Men" script (1995) as if it were new and set in the 50's (it's 1949). Meanwhile, like the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, Raveners quietly discuss what we understand to be the real thing...
“Once this is finished, he’s done everything he’s ever wanted to do,” says Rick McCallum, who has been producing Lucas’s films for more than 20 years.
“He will have completed his task as a man and a filmmaker.”
“You think ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ you think ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai,’ ” Rick McCallum says. “Then you think, Oh, my God, ‘Red Tails.’
?You think ?Phantom Menace,? you think ?The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull,? ? Rick McCallum says. ?Then you think, Oh, my God, ?Red Tails.
I'll assume you're addressing me.RaiderMitch said:"yes man"
RaiderMitch said:"Rick McCallum is fine with [me] when he's producing YIJ
You're surprised? I don't blame him for the direction Lucas is taking Indy or belching what he passes for content.RaiderMitch said:...but now on your s*** list?
Rick McCallum isn't the creative cancer, but to paraphrase myself, Rick McCallum still held its hand, fed it greasy food, lit its cigarettes and took it for long drives under the power lines to the nuclear power plant.RaiderMitch said:Yes he come across as a "yes man" but if you were paid handsomely for going along with the ideas of a billionaire who pays you, wouldn't you be one too?
Like Indiana Jones, I don't wear underwear.Montana Smith said:Rocket Man, here's something for the lady in your life (or for yourself if you're inclined):
Rocket Surgeon said:Rick McCallum isn't the creative cancer, but to paraphrase myself, Rick McCallum still held its hand, fed it greasy food, lit its cigarettes and took it for long drives under the power lines to the nuclear power plant.
McCallum has no soul. He's a callous company man. No one puts any stock into what he says...Lucas wanted to surround himself with sycophants and he did.
The reason he COULD sourrond himself with "Yes Men" is because he made his fortune COLLABORATING with tallented people and artists.
People who kept him grounded and told him the hard truths for the sake of the project.
Not the Mom and Dad who told him the discharge of his rectum was spun silk.
Come on Mitchy, ?He will have completed his task as a man...? goes WAY beyond the role of producer.
Its ugly, and coming from McCallum I can only guess the opposite is true.