July 29, 2008

George Lucas on Indiana Jones

TimesOnline has an interesting interview with George Lucas.

“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.”

One gets the distinct impression that Lucas is the man behind the terrible ending of Crystal Skull.  How does 1977 George Lucas turn into 2008 George Lucas?  All of the years between, I suppose.