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New life for 'Indiana Jones'
28/10/2004 12:56 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have hired a high-profile movie writer to pen a new script for a fourth instalment of the Indiana Jones adventure series, the trade magazine Variety reported.
Spielberg and Lucas, who directed and produced the successful movies, agreed a decade ago with star Harrison Ford that all three would have to agree on a script for the next movie about the adventurous archaeologist.
After working unsuccesfully with several writers the trio settled on Jeff Nathanson, who wrote the script of Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo di Caprio, and co-scripted the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal, both directed by Spielberg.
Nathanson also penned the script for the successful Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker Rush Hour action comedies.
The project seemed dead in February when Paramount Pictures canceled a mid-year production start because a script by Frank Darabont - whose writing credits include several episodes of the Young Indiana Jones television series as well as the upcoming Fahrenheit 451 - was not unanimously approved by the trio, according to Variety.
Once Spielberg, Lucas and Ford agree on a script it still unclear how soon the movie will begin filming.
Spielberg, who is completing War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, plans to focus on a movie about the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics terror attacks, according to Variety.
Lucas is focused on completing the third Star Wars movie, while Ford is preparing to star in a thriller titled The Wrong Element, followed by a drama about a crisis on an international space station titled Godspeed.
The last Indiana Jones movie, the third in the series, came out in 1989.
- AFP
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