Cause we can, why not. But so far, we have very little interest in “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skulls.” We hope to god, Shia LaBeouf doesn’t get a spin-off from this thing. We suppose it’s nice to see that Karen Allen has aged very gracefully. Just remember people, even George Lucas doesn’t have high expectations for this thing.
Indy & Aliens??
Are their aliens at the end of ‘Crystal Skulls’? (have the script ideas gotten that bad?) Well, maybe yes and maybe no. At one point George Lucas (oh, Lucas) thought that since the film was going to be set in the 1950s (to jive with Ford’s now mid-60s age) the genre should match that era: aliens invading Earth in spaceships with the military in hot pursuit (a popular genre trope of the ’50s obviously). Hilariously, Harrison Ford wasn’t with it. “No way am I being in a Steve Spielberg movie like that,” he told Entertainment Weekly.”
But, there could be some traces of alien invaders in the script, possibly? There was evidently about four different scripts written for Indy 4 and Harrison Ford says (with amusing bitterness), “There’s no element of any of the original scripts that has completely gone away. George made sure of that. ‘Cause he is that persistent. And that dogged.”
So we could see remnants of some alien invading something-or-other, right? God, we hope so. The more ridiculous the inevitable ending to this franchise is the better. Not cause the original wasn’t great, it’s just that we love to see George Lucas fall flat on his face and anger nerds when he again ruins another sacred movie character.
