On this week’s show we reported that George Lucas revealed that he has an idea for the next installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Given the box-office success this weekend of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a fifth Indy feature would seem like a no-brainer?
Well, maybe.Â
Before Indy would don the legendary fedora and take up his famous bull-whip for more globe-trotting adventures, Lucas told USA Today that Indy would need one essential thing: an object for his quest.
“I guess if I found an object for him to go after, we could do the sequel,” said Lucas.  “But it took me 20 years to find the last object, so I don’t know whether that will ever happen.”
Lucas says he doesn’t want a fifth installment in the franchise to be “forced” or done just to cash in at the box-office.
After the success of the first one, we decided to do these only if they’re fun to make and have a good story behind them,” he said. Â “We don’t need to make these for the money. The idea has to come naturally.”
So, will there be an Indy 5? Guess we’ll have to wait and see….
Kyle Nin says
“Lucas told USA Today that Indy would need one essential thing: an object for his quest.”
But it can’t be ANY object. It has to be an object that’s associated with archeology AND that has supernatural properties.
How many objects fit that description?
Bronzethumb from Australia says
Actually, he found is object only a couple of years after “Last Crusade”. First he was gonna use it in the Young Indy TV series, then that fell through. And then he spent 20 years trying to sell Spielberg and Ford on using crystal skulls. Personally, I can see why Spielberg and Ford were reluctant.
Emily says
Indy five…lost tomb of jar jar man, I’m telling you (come on, indy four was so close to that I could smell it lol)
Matt from Melbourne says
There’s a law of diminishing returns at work which should make them very cautious about doing another one.
They took a punt on a fourth instalment not sucking, and it seems to have paid off, but they’ll need a damn good story to make a fifth one seem worthwhile.
And doubly damn good if they’re going to put Shia in the hat.
Bronzethumb from Australia says
Indiana Jones and the Arthritis Medication?
Enur says
“Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth”
He finds it, drinks from it, and we get a Doctor Who-style regeneration and a completely new actor!
Carriep says
…And that actor is Nathan Fillion!
*sigh*
Charleen says
Gee, there’s only 500 novels that he could pull inspiration from! Some of them are actually a decent read, and quite make-able.
Deven Science says
The original script that circled Hollywood for years after The Last Crusade was Indy finding Noah’s Ark. There was a script and everything. At some point, that one was scrapped, but I remember people saying that they read it, and that it was good.
ilovemuffet says
Man I love Indiana Jones! But Enur is right “Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth†should be the next one, but carriep has got it wrong. The new actor would be Brandon Frasier and we could call it “Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Mummy” What? He’s already pretending to be Indiana Jones? Oh, well. http://cordrazine.wordpress.com/
Capt Jack says
There are a number of macguffins that could be laid out for further adventures. Many people commenting here are not using the “gray matter” effectively. For example: any one of the Norse legends could come into the picture and at the top of that list is Thor’s Hammer with Indy chasing it down to prevent Ragnarok. Atlantis has been mentioned often or any number of famous swords could be thrown into the story, not the least of which is Excalibur. The real issue is; can they do another without screwing it up? I give it two chances in three that they can get it done; the two are Steve and Harrison, the one is George.
Here’s one that will bake your noodle, Indy is on a dig in the Arctic circle and uncovers a light saber with the fossilized bones of Jar-Jar Binks.
Mr E says
Here ‘s a possible
Indiana Jones and detective John Mc Clane in
“The Return of Hans Gruberâ€
After being subjected to a mysterious radiation “Indy†realizes he can summon a whip from the electricity within his body!
The “whip†is pure energy!
Kind of like the electricity enveloping “the highlander†in the highlander movie.
Indy then discovers a lost temple.
Inside the temple is a strange looking ring with mystical symbols on it..
The ring looks a lot like the ring used in “Stargate†(the movie , non glowing parts)
Indy dial up the ring and (yes you figured it out!)
Ends up in the future! (wow!)
Indy eminently teams up with police detective John Mc Clane and Mc Clane tells Indy the tale of how the terrorists were able to reassemble Hans Gruber (unfortunately the F.B.I. lost some of Hans’s parts so he’s mostly a machine.
Can electro whip Indy and Die Hard defeat the evil Gruber Robot ?
Warning “spoiler†…
After Indy and John defeat Hans Gruber, the picture ends with Indy and John “kissing“.
Lucas: “I love it, I may have to make it a bit less realistic, so we don’t have to pay you for the scriptâ€
E: Hu?
Frazer Moore says
Indiana Jones and the secret of Hades could be a hit in which he must search for Pandoras box before an evil group of treasure hunters find it to create a world full of people to good to prevent there plan for global domination!
Any good?
sam armstrong says
Well the first indiana jones was a big sucess it was good and the next three did really well in the box office but the fourth film was grea t and harrison ford is at a great shape for his age brendan frasier is good but it isnt his franchise so a fifth indy would be great,
Jock the Pilot says
The Golden fleece, The garden of eden and aladins lamp are all items of power and could easily be the object for the 5th indy movie but any one who thinks the fountain of youth could be used is wrong because the holy grail is already like it plus it’s not an archeological artifact so jonesy would’int search for it .
Rabenbslut says
Do not tell me he had to search 20 years for a new object. What about to ask some renown archeologist (go to the source, Indy is an archeologist in the first place). You will have material for 15 movies. Shankara stones were also not a famous artifact but they worked well. Pandora’s box is OK, but wasn’t that in Tomb Raider movie already?
There is a choice: Indiana Jones & the Tomb of Osiris. At least it would be in Egypt and Sallah could be involved. Osiris is also a god of underworld, so it could be also named like a Indiana Jones and the gates of Amenti
danny says
It’s obvious what needs to happen. Beg Connery to come out of Ritirment, die fords hair, take it back to… say… 1954, and do “excalibur.” You could make that work, but you’d have to try harder and get more real then they did in Crystal Skull. That was imbarrassing. All the c.g.1…. the soundtrack was weak, and it took on too many umbeliebvable things.
Those water falls!? C’mon! It was too much. Indy used to be half believable. That was like… frickin Disney.
If they don’t do a prequel, then he and Marion need to get caught up fighting again and wind up in some Slavic country, or somtimng in China, heloing peasants fight currupt commies… That would be good. I like the idea of America being suspicious of Indy too, as times change.
indyj11 says
Are you guys serious, they already have the PERFECT story, it makes sense with the current Indy and they could actually make the commis EVIL, and they could adjust small parts of the story to make it fit, they could even make it a prequel to Crystal Skull like Temple of Doom was a prequel to Raiders, and it would be thousands of times better then Crystal. I’m talking about Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. Perfect story, perfectly magical and strange artifact and TONS of locations! Not to mention the true final enemy sets up Crystal Skull PERFECTLY and gives even more reason as to why the American government is suspicious of Indy’s motives!
Chris says
I got it: Indiana Jones and the search for Short Round.
the lows says
Indiana Jones and the search for Ja Ja !!
hehehe
Darcy