Aqui les pongo una entrevista telefónica que se produjo recientemente entre GL y el periodista Richard Corliss. No he traducido la entrevista, pero bueno, a estas alturas todos tenemos un cierto conocimiento del inglés....


March 15, 2006
George Lucas on the future of Indiana Jones
"Indiana Jones" creator, writer and executive producer George Lucas recently sat down for a two-hour phone interview with Time magazine's Richard Corliss, and rather than squander the opportunity to talk about "Indiana Jones 4" with the stereotypical, "Will it get made?" question, Corliss dug a bit deeper!

What follows is an excerpt of the conversation about the fourth Indy sequel, including comments from Lucas on how involved he is in the film (very), Ford's age (of course), and whether or not he'll demand Steven Spielberg should shoot and edit the film in the digital realm (read below to find out).

"Richard Corliss: ...I guess you’ll be less involved with an 'Indiana Jones 4' than you were in the first three?

George Lucas: Well, I’ve been working on 'Indy 4' for ten years. So I’ve been more involved, so no matter how you count it on this one I’ll be more involved than I’ll have ever been on the other three put together. It’s taken forever to get a script of it. That’s my part of it.

R.C. Isn’t Harrison Ford now older than Sean Connery was when he played his father in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?

G.L. Uhh, yeah. But the thing is designed for that. And I think it’s funny, it’s exciting. You know the problem there, which is not a problem, is that we don’t have to make that movie. All we can do is hurt ourselves, all it’s going to do is get criticized. I mean it’s basically 'Phantom Menace' we’re making. No matter how you do it, no matter what you do, it won’t be what the other ones were in terms of the impact or the way people remember them.

R.C. But there’s also no need to complete the holes in the epic.

G.L. We don’t have anything like that. We just had a great time making those movies. And if we can have a great time doing this one and we can enjoy ourselves, and make something that’s entertaining to us, no matter what the world thinks, let’s just do it.

R.C. But you also have to decide on the format, right?

G.L. In terms of what?

R.C. Do you say, 'Dammit, Steven, do it in digital,' and he says, 'Dammit, George, I’m doing it on film'?

G.L. Pretty much.

R.C.Who wins?

G.L. He’ll win. He’s the director. The great thing about working with Steven is that we don’t have agendas. We want to make the best movie possible, I want him to be happy. If he he wants to shoot it on film and cut it on a Movieola... Hey, he’s got a great editor. Michael Kahn can cut faster on a Movieola than anybody can cut on an Avid. And I don’t really care. But I do tell him, 'This is your chance to play with this and experiment with it and blame it all on me'—say, ‘He made me do it.’ And then you can go back to film if you want. But he has relented after all these years to maybe cutting it digitally. We’ll see what happens."

A few comments from a fan's perspective: it's great to hear Lucas speak about his comittment to Spielberg as director, and for the sake of visual continuity with the other three pictures (as well as one could hope for), it's very assuring to hear the film will be shot on actual film stock. A bit of controversy was made of this a few years back and apparently to the people that matter (Spielberg and Lucas), it's a non-controversy.

Regarding Michael Kahn cutting digitally, I believe Kahn has cut on non-Spieberg pictures in a non-linear fashion, most recently the "Peter Pan" remake, and it'll be interesting to hear what kind of production pipeline the film is moved through.

Finally (and I jest here), it makes the very pit of my stomach shrivel in fear to hear George Lucas mention "The Phantom Menace" and "Indiana Jones 4" in the same sentence as he did. I know he's not being literal, but talking such trash can turn a fanboy older than Harrison Ford could ever dream to be. That's not wizard, Mr. Lucas!

In other "Indiana Jones" talk going around online, Empire magazine has published what is technically an exclusive non-story stating that George Lucas has signed off on the screenplay after working on it extensively during the last part of 2005. This isn't really anything newsworthy nor completely accurate since it was known as of last week that Lucas had passed Jeff Nathanson's script to Steven Spielberg and David Koepp for rewriting and final approvals likely won't come from all parties until Spielberg and Koepp's work on the draft is complete.



Fuente: www.spielbergfilms.com (por cierto, muy buena la página)