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May 19th, 2008

Priceless gems once again drop from Lucas’ lips:

George Lucas On “Indiana Jones 5″ And “Star Wars” Rejection
Fox News | Roger Friedman | May 16, 2008 09:39 AM

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George Lucas tells me it’s more than a strong possibility there will be a fifth “Indiana Jones.” He says that he and director Steven Spielberg have left the door open for a sequel to “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

We all knew this was coming, right? This is Lucas we’re talking about. The guy who never saw a franchise he didn’t want to squeeze the last red cent out of.

Lucas, looking dandy with slicked-back gray and white hair in a snappy tuxedo, was a guest Thursday night at Paramount/DreamWorks’s party for “Kung Fu Panda” at the 61st Cannes Film Festival…

Staking out the competition? :pfft:

“I haven’t even told Steven or Harrison this,” he said. “But I have an idea to make Shia [LeBeouf] the lead character next time and have Harrison [Ford] come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out.

*hysterical screaming* *and not in a good way*

Indy without Harrison? That’s like Gone With The Wind without Vivien Leigh, Dirty Harry without Eastwood, The Blues Brothers without Belushi! What is this boy drinking?!

“And it’s not like Harrison is even old. I mean, he’s 65 and he did everything in this movie. The old chemistry is there, and it’s not like he’s an old man. He’s incredibly agile; he looks even better than he did 20 years ago, if you ask me.”

I don’t know. In the trailers he looks a bit out of it to me. I guess it is the years and not the mileage.
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“Star Wars” continues to thrive. In August, Lucas says, he’s releasing an animated 90-minute “Star Wars” movie to theaters via Warner Bros. called “Clone Wars.” It will be followed in September by an animated series on the Cartoon Network and TNT.

“No one wanted it,” he told me. “Every studio rejected it, including Fox, and I’m very loyal to them. They have right of first refusal. Eventually I brought it to Warners. It’s the first time that three components of the studio have acted together. It’s very exciting.

That’s not what I would call “thriving”.

“But the story is that everyone said, ‘No one gets this. It’s just … ‘Star Wars.” I said, ‘That’s right, It’s just ‘Star Wars.’ Just like this is … ‘Indiana Jones.”

There’s that “it’s just a movie” write-off again. The networks get it, all right. They get that they can’t make a long-term commitment to a series that might not deliver ratings and, more importantly, advertising dollars. The PT was a joke, and anything following in its footsteps will be looked upon with jaundiced eyes.

You know, for all the stuff he throws out for me to shoot down, he should be selling it. Add it to his list of things to milk to death.

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