Interesting that they originally had Mac presented as much more of a Scotsman...
Jonesy...I'm gonna be all right!
Jonesy...I'm gonna be all right!
Attila the Professor said:Interesting that they originally had Mac presented as much more of a Scotsman...
Jonesy...I'm gonna be all right!
Come on! In a world where magic like this exists:Montana Smith said:KOTCS just went overboard with the scale of the cliffhangers...[/IMG]
Rocket Surgeon said:Come on! In a world where magic like this exists:
How can you nitpick a stunt like that?!
Harrison was cheated out of the Academy Award for that one...imagine putting on all that weight for a role!Montana Smith said:I dig Indy in the wig disguised as Spalko. I'd forgotten that scene, when he had to fight off Dovchenko's amorous advances.
Rocket Surgeon said:Harrison was cheated out of the Academy Award for that one...imagine putting on all that weight for a role!
No sign of it on the archived site.In May 1998, Mr. Showbiz spoke with Jeffrey Boam about the rumored Lost Continent script. He said that he hadn't heard of anything called that, in fact, he was told not to place a name on the script he turned in two years prior and had not heard anything about it since.
Shortly after LETHAL, Steven Spielberg called with the Holy Grail of writing gigs (so to speak).
“I forget what he said, but it was something like, ‘You wanna get real rich?’ and I said ‘Yeah, why?’ and he said, ‘I think you should do the next Indiana Jones movie’,” recalled Boam. “He said he had to talk to George because George didn’t know me from Adam. So a long time went by, and I actually put it out of my mind. Then Steven called me for some other reason, and I said ‘By the way, anything going on for the Indiana Jones idea?’ and he said, ‘I think George is going to call you soon.’ So I got a call from George and he wanted to meet me at Amblin. I went over there, met with George and got along real well and the next step was spending about two weeks with George working out the story for INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.” The process proved to be very simple according to Boam. “Lucas had ideas for set pieces already in mind,” recalled Boam. “The whole thing in Venice with motorboards and the two hulls the motorboat gets crushed between was already in his mind. And what I brought to it especially was this whole Sean Connery thing. The father character had never been evolved. This was actually Lucas’ fourth attempt to do a third INDIANA JONES movie. There were two other writers who had kind of false starts, but nobody really tackled the father relationship or the father’s character, so that gave me a lot to work with.”
At the time of this interview (1996), Boam had actually done a couple of drafts for INDY 4 but said he couldn’t really talk too much about it. “George is very happy with the script and Steven is happy with it too, but the next step is to get Harrison on board,” Boam said at the time.
Moedred said:
Udvarnoky said:It hasn't and it's too bad, because we can't judge Lucas's flying saucers concept without it. The Jeb Stuart draft is valuable as a work-in-progress peek at the general idea, but since Lucas was not satisfied until Boam's final draft then that's the one we really need.
Raiders112390 said:I find the 1949 date on the Stuart draft curious. I wonder if that was Stuart's idea or Lucas'? It's something I wonder since at this point Lucas had already shown Indy adventuring in the 1950s in the YIJC.
Raiders112390 said:I wonder what it was about Stuart's draft that Lucas wasn't happy with.
JB: “I’ve been working on a fourth installment of ‘Indiana Jones.’ I’m just about done with the first draft. Somebody else had also tried their hand at it, and it didn’t work out too well.”
They always keep coming back to you, Jeffrey.
JB: “It’s nice, you know. Actually, George Lucas came to me to do this first, and I was busy writing a movie called ‘The Phantom.’ So I couldn’t do ‘Indy,’ because I had to do that, and when I finished that, George came back to me and said, ‘It didn’t really work out with the other writer, are you available?’
Indy's Next Adventure?
Is that Indiana Jones on the horizon?
According to an item this week on the Ain't-It-
Cool-News Web site, the summer of 2000
could mark the return of Harrison Ford's
swashbuckling archeologist, who hasn't been
seen on the big screen since 1989. The site
reports that screenwriter Jeffrey Boam, who penned Indiana Jones
and the Last Crusade, the third installment in the popular franchise,
has finished a screenplay titled Indiana Jones and the Lost
Continent. Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG, having just
partnered on the current hit Deep Impact, as well as director Steven
Spielberg's upcoming Saving Private Ryan, are said to be reteaming
for the fourth Indy opus.
Not so fast, says Marvin Levy, the spokesman for Indy director
Spielberg. "Jeffrey Boam is the one person who has been associated
with the project over the years, but the project's not on any list that I
have right now." Adds Boam, "I turned in a script two years ago, but
I haven't heard anything about it lately. And The Lost Continent
wasn't the title謡e do have a title, but [producer] George [Lucas]
wouldn't even let me put it on the title page."
One of the biggest difficulties in getting Indy before cameras appears
to be scheduling. Spielberg recently decided to direct Memoirs of a
Geisha, a fictional drama about a Japanese girl. That shoot is
expected to begin early in 1999, which wouldn't leave the filmmaker
much time to launch another Indy adventure for the summer of
2000蓉nless, that is, he's willing to shoot two movies virtually back-
to-back (as he did with Jurassic Park and Schindler's List). And
then there's the question of George Lucas' availabilty. Right now,
Lucas is a busy man himself, prepping a little Star Wars project for
release next summer.