Indiana Jones Part 4: The Saga Continues

Feb 16, 2000
by Julie Keller

Forget that Star Wars business. The sequel we've all really been waiting for is no longer just a pipe dream. At least according to Harrison Ford.

The star of the blockbuster Indiana Jones series says the fourth installment of the action-adventure series is a sure thing...he hopes.

According to the New York Post, the actor sent the audience into a frenzy at a taping of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio when he confirmed that 1989's installment of the series was not the Last Crusade.

When asked if there would be an Indiana Jones Part IV, he answered, "Yeah."

"I say that only because I want it to happen," he quickly clarified after dropping the bomb. "This is no announcement. We're waiting for a script everyone is happy with, and George [Lucas] is busy elsewhere. Very little progress has been made, but Steven [Spielberg] and I are ready."

Of course, Ford first must finish Steven Soderbergh's art-house film Traffic, which begins shooting in April. Ford will play a judge whose hard-line anti-drug stance is challenged by his daughter's crack habit. Lucas is busy with the next two installments of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and despite Ford's statement, Spielberg has a rather full plate as well.

As of now, the filmmaker has several films in the works. His next project is slated to be Minority Report with Tom Cruise. He's also rumored to be keen on doing a film version of the Harry Potter fantasy novels, a big-screen adaptation of the novel Memoirs of a Geisha and the late Stanley Kubrick's AI project, a Pinocchio-esque story of a young robot boy.

If the Indy script is the only thing holding up the film, however, Ford can stop worrying. In November 1998, during a Phantom Menace press conference, Lucas told reporters that a new Indy script is ready to shoot whenever Ford and Spielberg are.

They'd better freaking hurry up, though, if they want the AARP-eligible Ford to have some semblance of youth as the swashbuckling lead character.

The aging star who played the adventurous archaeologist in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade will be celebrating 58 big ones in July.

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