A title has been announced for the long-promised fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series: Indiana Jones and the Geriatric Ward. OK, that's not really the new title but at this rate it may be all we'll get. After all, Harrison Ford ain't getting younger.

MTV recently caught up with George Lucas and posed the question on everyone's mind: what on earth is taking so long? The Iraqi people have created a whole new system of national government in less time that you're taking to get this film pulled together.

Lucas' shrugged response? "We just keep working on it. You know, we just write and write and write and write and write. But we are getting closer, and hopefully this year we will have a start date and we will have a script that we all love and hopefully it will come out next year."

Look, if there's one thing we've learned from the new Star Wars trilogy, Lucas should be kept as far away as humanly possible from anything remotely related to writing process. To complicate matters Lucas mentioned he's brought in Jeff Nathanson who wrote Catch Me If You Can to work on the script. C'mon, people, the "B" edition of Encyclopedia Britannica didn't have this many contributing writers.

Casting rumors are still going back and forth but I suppose those all depend on what the final script ends up being. Karen Allen and Kate Capshaw who played Jones' past love interests are rumored to be returning and there's a chance John Rhys Davies may reprise his role as Sallah as well.

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