Anne Thompson, blogging for Variety, has picked up some hubristic comments from George Lucas, buried in what she calls a “puff piece” with the Times of London. In what probably won’t be a surprise for anyone baffled and frustrated by the recent Star Wars and even the newest Indiana Jones, Lucas is back to his old tricks of messing with things that should be left alone and taking all the credit in the meantime.
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another,” he says about Indiana Jones, before accusing Spielberg of being the real issue in getting the most recent one made. “Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one.”
And now comes the part that might really make you crazy. “I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension.”
Wow. So now, as if there were any doubt, we know who to blame for the aliens and all the other “futuristic” mumbo-jumbo of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. No word on who to blame for the vine-swinging monkeys, though. It’s unimaginable how Lucas can still consider himself to be a forward-thinking visionary after his attempts to pack the three most recent Star Wars movie with technology were met with widespread disdain. Hand him credit for not kowtowing to public opinion, I guess, but shudder at the thought of where Lucas’s vision of the future may take us next.
Oh, and add this to the pile of rumors about an Indy 5, most of which seem to just be coming from Lucas himself. If Spielberg and Lucas are really squabbling as much as Lucas suggests, it may never actually happen. And given everything Lucas is saying about how he’s controlling where the series goes, we may not want it to happen at all.
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Lucas is on the down side. His early success's were buoyed by creativenes, now he is trying to reinvent the wheel. With the NEW cartoons coming out, I doubt that I will go to the show to see them, I can only hope that Spielberg regains control of the Indy franchise, and let Lucas squeeze the last drop of profit out of the Star Wars Universe.
Enough is enough.
"after his attempts to pack the three most recent Star Wars movie with technology were met with widespread disdain" Here we go again, Cinemablend's inexplicable hatred towards George Lucas, the man who invented Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Disdain? Given that The Phantom Menace alone made a billion dollars worldwide I hardly believe that "disdain" has been the world reaction. For some reason you just hate this guy's success. I loved Indy 4 (given that it's made $700,000+ worldwide others have as well) and I'll be first in line if he makes Indy 5. Your ongoing negative opinion of the guy doesn't match reality.
so there is aliens invovled with this indy movie thats kind of stupid. it would have liked it to be more based on the real crystal skull mystery where if you collect all the skulls all the mysteries of the world will be revealed.
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