agentsands77
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Impossible? No. Improbable? Yes.Rob Smith said:I think what I'm getting at is this... it isn't impossible that Lucas paid tribute for the simple fact that my script, in the end, did catch his eye, and he's been trying to plant seeds against my script since day one... a year after my screenplay was posted (mid 97)
Lucas has said that it always had the same MacGuffin, but he never specifically mentioned the skull. In THE COMPLETE MAKING OF INDIANA JONES, he refers to the aliens themselves as the MacGuffin, so I think that's maybe what he was referring to there. And he does claim he got the idea for using the crystal skull from the abandoned Young Indiana Jones episode (and that episode's development is documented).Rob Smith said:Lucas was telling foreign news that Indy would have a son, and later, that the skull was always the Mcguffin... yet Saucer Men From Mars has no sign of a skull... but... again... who knows.
But at any rate, just 'cause I'm kind of down on your belief that Lucas is either raiding or referencing your ideas, don't take it too harshly. SONS OF DARKNESS is, by far, the best Indiana Jones fan script I've ever read, and it's better than the few leaked unproduced scripts we have (excluding the Darabont and Nathanson drafts, which have apparently leaked, but not in a big way, so I haven't read either).
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