<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn a feature on Spielberg and his movies by Vulture (paywall), Kennedy and Lucas discuss the difficulties they and others faced making the movie. First up, cinematographer Janusz Kami\u0144ski admitted he failed to recreate the look of the previous Indiana Jones movies established by Douglas Slocombe, calling The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull “by far was the hardest movie I\u2019ve ever done in my life.”<\/p>\n
Kennedy said The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a tough production not just for Kami\u0144ski, but for Spielberg and Ford, who she said were “struggling” with it because they didn\u2019t want to do a “Raiders movie that involved aliens,” and “kind of got into a fight” with George Lucas about it.<\/p>\n
Lucas told Vulture: \u201cI wanted it to be kind of a War of the Worlds sort of thing. Harrison said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to do another science-fiction movie.\u2019 And Steven said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to do another science-fiction movie.\u2019 I said, \u2018Steven, this is perfect because it\u2019s the 1950s, when flying saucers were a whole thing,\u2019 but he said \u2018no.\u2019 We did about five scripts, and finally Steve and I compromised: \u2018Look, what if they\u2019re not aliens but from another dimension.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy said Spielberg and Ford went along with Lucas\u2019 idea, but they \u201cwere not 100% onboard.\u201d And that\u2019s the root cause of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ending up as the worst of Spielberg\u2019s Indiana Jones movies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why the movie, out of the four that Steven made, is the weakest,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why Harrison was so deeply committed to Destiny. He didn\u2019t want that to be the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucas went on to discuss the final, divisive shot of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where the interdimensional beings fly away in an alien-like craft. \u201cSteven put that last shot in, where they get into a flying saucer and take off,\u201d Lucas said. \u201cHe was rationalizing it by saying, \u2018Well, they\u2019re going to another dimension. They have to get there somehow.\u2019 I said, \u2018It looks like a flying saucer.\u2019 He did make a science-fiction movie after that, and Harrison did an alien movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out in 2008, most thought that was it for Ford playing the role, but he returned once again for yet another entry, 2023\u2019s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Here, Kennedy is suggesting here the way The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull went pushed Ford to want to do The Dial of Destiny.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Kennedy indicated it may be some time before we see another Indiana Jones movie, insisting: \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody is interested right now in exploring it.\u201d Three years on from The Dial of Destiny, Lucasfilm has yet to indicate that a follow-up is in the works.<\/p>\n
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is considered by most fans to be the worst Indiana Jones movie, and based on comments from former Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy, we now know why it turned out the way it did. Warning! Spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull follow. Indiana Jones and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8066,1475,7596,4530,3985,6570,8519,6753,8520],"class_list":{"0":"post-9042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-crystal","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-jones","11":"tag-kingdom","12":"tag-movie","13":"tag-skull","14":"tag-spielbergs","15":"tag-steven","16":"tag-weakest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}