INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Writer Says He Was Never Happy With the Idea of Using Aliens

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the weakest link in the quartet of Indiana Jones films. It just wasn’t as good as the previous three films, and there are many reasons why, but the main one is just the weak storyline. Even the film’s writer had a problem with where the story went, but he had little say in the tentpole scenes that held up the movie.

In a recent interview with the Script Apart podcast, writer David Koepp, who previously wrote great movies like Death Becomes Her, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room, Spider-Man, and Secret Window, he opened up about the process of co-writing Indiana Jones 4, with Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can), and said he was "never happy with the idea [of 'aliens']" in the movie. That concept was a sticking point though for director by Steven Spielberg and creator George Lucas.

Koepp explained:

"When I came on, I tried to convince [Spielberg and Lucas] to change it — I had this other idea. They didn't want to change it. I'm not saying mine would've been better. But I think that a lot of the pushback that movie got, in a larger sense aside from little things people might not have liked — that were too silly or whatever — the larger one was that [fans said], 'We don't feel like aliens should've been in an Indiana Jones movie.'"

Hopefully Indiana Jones 5 will return to the tenets of the original trilogy that made them great. The next film will be released on June 30, 2023.

via: ComicBook