Jurassic Park 4 en Indiana Jones 5 houden de gemoederen onder de fans al een tijdje bezig. Steven Spielberg heeft onlangs in een interview een boekje open gedaan over de voortgang van beide projecten.
Voor Jurassic Park 4 ziet het er vrij rooskleurig uit volgens Spielberg:
The screenplay is being written right now by Mark Protosevich. I’m hoping that will come out in the next couple of years. We have a good story. We have a better story for four than we had for three.Over Indiana Jones zegt hij het volgende:
You have to ask George Lucas. George is in charge of breaking the stories. He’s done it on all four movies. Whether I like the stories or not, George has broken all the stories. He is working on Indy V. We haven’t gone to screenplay yet, but he’s working on the story. I’ll leave it to George to come up with a good story.Laten we hopen dat Lucas niet teveel tijd nodig heeft, anders kan het nog wel even duren. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull kreeg nogal wat kritiek te verduren. Daarover zegt Spielberg:
I’m very happy with the movie. I always have been… I sympathise with people who didn’t like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin. George and I had big arguments about the MacGuffin. I didn’t want these things to be either aliens or inter-dimensional beings. But I am loyal to my best friend. When he writes a story he believes in – even if I don’t believe in it – I’m going to shoot the movie the way George envisaged it. I’ll add my own touches, I’ll bring my own cast in, I’ll shoot the way I want to shoot it, but I will always defer to George as the storyteller of the Indy series. I will never fight him on that.
