Indy IV in 2002?

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Posted by mlgm from 144.92.85.113 on June 22, 2000 at 08:36:54:

Arnold & Indy -- They'll Be Back
By Michael Fleming and Dana Harris

NEW YORK (Variety) - After a decade, the Terminator is back, and it looks as if Indiana Jones is right behind him.

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Meanwhile, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan (''The Sixth Sense'') is talking with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford about scripting a fourth installment of the ''Indiana Jones'' series, which Spielberg would direct in 2002.

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As for ``Indiana Jones,'' the effort to mount a sequel has been long and fruitless since Spielberg, Lucas and Ford agreed in 1993 to make a fourth picture. The third installment, ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,'' hit theaters in 1989.

The three decided at the time to only do a film if all were involved and mutually approved the concept and script. Numerous scripts have been written, and Spielberg, Lucas and Ford have often been preoccupied with other things.

The campaign to draft the inventive Shyamalan indicates the trio is serious about putting the film into production sometime in 2002.

No deal is in place, but sources said indications are strong that Shyamalan will start writing in January, once he completes ``Unbreakable,'' a script for which he was paid $10 million by Disney to write and direct, with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson starring.

Paramount, which distributed the first three films in the series via a deal with Lucas' Lucasfilm banner, is expected to be involved as well.

The box office returns on ``Mission: Impossible 2'' have reinforced the value of audience-tested characters, and studios all over town are trying to overcome creative and financial obstacles to put together sequels to smash hit films.

No actor has driven more franchises than Ford, counting ''Star Wars,'' ``Indiana Jones'' and the Jack Ryan series. However, Paramount suffered a setback recently when Ford nixed plans for a fourth appearance as Ryan in ``The Sum of All Fears,'' which was to have been directed by Phillip Noyce.

Paramount is back to the drawing board on that picture. Meanwhile, it looks likely that when Ford next reprises a franchise character, he'll be wearing his signature Stetson and cracking a bullwhip as the death-defying archaeologist Indiana Jones.



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