Koepp now on Indy 4
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Spielberg spoke to Fox News columnist Roger Friedman last night at the Academy Governor's Ball and the director
claimed that he's taking a year off. His film, Munich, was
so non-existent at the Oscars, if it weren't for the random shots of Spielberg, I would have forgotten all about it.
What was it called again?
Anyway, while this news obviously means we are waiting that much longer for Indy 4, it does not mean there won't be a sequel. According to Spielberg, he is still directing the film...sometime before he dies. Phew. Also, it appears as if Jeff Nathanson, who wrote the latest draft of Indy 4, has been taken out of the game for reliever David Koepp. Spielberg says, "I have David Koepp in it now, and he's my closer." Well, if the story is anything like Koepp's version of War of the Worlds, then it appears as if this one may slip away from us in the bottom of the ninth.
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3-07-2006 @ 4:04AM
Peter said...
I think this is a great, great move on their part. Koepp is one of the most talented, studio-grounded screenwriters out their. He has a great ability to bleed imagination into scripts in very subtle, very calculated ways and I don't think he gets enough credit. The man has proven, to me at least, that time and time again he can deliver scripts that remind you what it was like to be sitting in a theater, gazing in awe at that giant screen when you were 10 years old - no matter how dour of a grown-up you've become.
Unless you've got no childhood spirit inside...
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3-07-2006 @ 10:35AM
George Myers said...
How about "Indy in the Land of Meroe"? I was looking at it in Wikipedia, it's in the Sudan and was intrigued by the pyramids and other structures. You could do some of the outside shots at Pinewood West in New York's toni Hamptons, Mr. Spielberg, some parts of it "out east" thought alot like "arabia" in the summer, between Pinewood and Montauk. Even the local natives had names like "Pharoh". As an anthropology student I know some are still around thought the Montaukett were chased off in 1910 by a Federal court decision, one I think was held in the "Tweed Courthouse" in NYC's City Hall Park, City Hall's architect the same that designed the Montauk lighthouse commissioned by George Washington, who asked the locals where it should go, according to some recent geologists.
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