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Spielberg Says Lucas Will Be Involved Creatively in New ‘Indiana Jones’ Film
“George is going to be an executive producer on it with me,” the filmmaking icon told reporters on Monday during a press roundtable for his upcoming film “The BFG,” when it was suggested that — following the 2012 sale of the Lucasfilm properties to The Walt Disney Company and Lucas’ reported retirement from producing films — that Spielberg would make the recently announced fifth Indiana Jones film without his longtime friend and collaborator.
“Of course — I would never make an ‘Indiana Jones’ film without George Lucas,” Spielberg said. “That would be insane.”
The two moviemaking legends first concocted the film that would eventually become “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the 1981 film that kicked-off the retro-flavored action franchise, while vacationing together in Hawaii during the 1977 release of Lucas’ original “Star Wars.” At the apex of their early Hollywood careers, they built out Lucas’ notion of a movie serial-style adventurer into a boundary-pushing stunt-driven blockbuster under Spielberg’s direction.
They also collaborated on each of the subsequent three sequels, and Spielberg promised that for the fifth outing, “George will be inputted in it.”