by Jeordie » July 20th 2004 12:45 am
Interesting isn't?
Tom Stoppard Wanted For Indy Sequel
[Tue April 23, 2002 05:54PM]
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford the main men behind the "Indiana Jones" movies are trying to get Tom Stoppard to produce the script for the much-anticipated Indiana Jones 4, reports EmpireMagazine and Variety.
Stoppard, whose last script was for the Mick Jagger produced film "Enigma," is much in demand it seems, and the Jones trio will have to persuade him that they need him more than Stoppard's "Shakespeare in Love" collaborator John Madden who wants to work with him on the film adaptation of "Tulip Fever".
He work as script doctor and re-write uncredited on "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
Ford denied that he was getting too old in the tooth for the action hero role. 'There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older,' he told the magazine. 'It's not an age-based character.'
However Ford did concede that there may be limitations. 'We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.
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Producer Frank Marshall says that ongoing script changes will delay Indiana Jones 4 for at least another year. "Indiana Jones [IV] is still in the writing stage," Marshall told Sci-Fi Wire. "It's still a live project, and [producer George] Lucas is working on the script at this time."
Marshall says that Lucas is currently completing the script with another writer, whom he refused to identify. "I'd say we have about two-thirds of a great story, and now we're working on the last third," Marshall said. "We'll get our schedules coordinated, but it won't be for another year or so."
"We don't want to proceed with something that we all don't feel is worthy," Marshall adds. "Obviously, we don't want to do this movie unless it's going to be great."
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Some of his credits for the other person who didn't know.
Shakespeare in Love
Empire of the Sun
Sleepy Hollow
and
Brazil.