I think by now we’ve all become pretty jaded about the possibility of a fourth Indiana Jones movie. Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford keep promising, but nothing ever actually happens. So maybe you’re no longer interested in reading what they have to say on the subject, since they seem to be all hot air. Well, George Lucas has the cure for your indifference. He, Spielberg, and Ford all talked to Empire Online, and he reassures us with this little nugget about Indy IV: “We’re basically going to do The Phantom Menace.”

Whoa! Hold on there. Take your head out of the oven and give George a chance. He continues, “People’s expectations are way higher than you can deliver.” Ok, clearly Lucas is still in denial about just how bad Phantom Menace really is. No George, it wasn’t bad because we expected too much from it, it was just bad. He is however trying to make a good point about Indy IV. They’re going to have a pretty tough time living up to the hype a fourth movie will get.

So, rather than just bearing down and making the thing, they’re continuing to take their time. Not that this is news, the slowness of this project has become legendary. What is news is that Lucas, after a lot of meandering on about how they aren’t really getting anywhere on making the thing, tells Empire that filming is back to being scheduled for mid-2007 for a 2008 release. Harrison Ford assures, “But there’s a good chance it will happen.” It doesn’t sound like it to me Han.