George Lucas is a misunderstood genius who is being held back by that over-involved loser Steven Spielberg… or at least, that’s what he would want you to believe. In a recent interview with the Times Online, Lucas – with a straight face – discussed the possibility of an “Indiana Jones 5” and promptly took a shit on his mere underling buddy, Steven Spielberg. While discussing his upcoming animated star wars film, “The Clone Wars,” (dude, that shit prequel came out a long time ago, move on) he also talked a 5th Indiana Jones movie.
“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. 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. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. 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. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”
Would the fact that Spielberg wasn’t into the “Crystal Skulls” have anything to do with the fact that it was one of the dumber movies he had been forced to direct in his career? But it didn’t stop there, Lucas continued to display his disgust at the fact that Harrison Ford and Spielberg have become bigger stars than him.
“Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it that way,’ whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, ‘We’ll do it this way’ and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so its a little hard on a practical level.”
Poor guy. Yeah George, we agree, it is totally annoying when some unproven hack like Steven Spielberg tries to butcher a masterpiece like “Crystal Skulls.” Lucas also said he wished those annoying fans would leave him alone and let him make his art house films without disturbance.
“I can’t say yet, but [my next films will] be personal. In fact, I’d sooner just make them and not even release them, just put them on the shelf, like ships in a bottle.” For once we agree with you, we think that plan would work out better for all of us, frankly.
Very funny post. Is it just me or in the photo does it look like Spielberg and Ford are taking a Downs Syndrome Lucas out to a gala dinner?
“Look over there Georgy – clowns!”