Indiana Jones exclusive

Harrison Ford tells us what to expect from 'Indiana Jones 4'.

Mar 31 2006

During The TOMB's recent audience with Harrison Ford, we got him to talk about the long-mooted Indiana Jones sequel that George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Ford himself have been discussing for years.

To begin with, he gave the usual party line, saying he was looking forward to making the pic and was hoping to start filming before the end of the year.

But when quizzed further, he told us a little bit about what we should expect from part four:

'Indiana Jones is going to be older' Ford explained, 'And the story will therefore take place in a different historical period of time. We are not going back to World War II and the Nazis but I think that it will be relatively the same type of tale - George's special mix of Saturday matinee western serial and crypto-spiritual sort of stuff.'

He continued: 'George is the one who generates these movies. Steven and I make them. We come on board after George has prescribed the territory.

'Sometimes we don't agree and there was one script in particular that I didn't like so it was back to the drawing board. Now, after however many years, I'm delighted that we have something that we all have confidence in.'

So we definitely won't have a 63-year-old Ford pretending to be 40-years-old again, which is a good thing, though I still can't help but feel that Indy riding off into the sunset at the end of 'Last Crusade' was the perfect way for the series to conclude, and that part four is a totally unnecessary addition to the franchise. What do you think?

And to read our full interview with Harrison Ford, click here.

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