Circa 1977, just after release of Star Wars
Status of George Lucas: after initial doubts of many Star Wars has released to stupendous results. Verdict is out: Star Wars is on the way to have a cult following. Lucas escapes of to a beach to stay away from all huge media attention after Star Wars
Status of Steven Spielberg: creator of Jaws is in trouble; his films are going over budget including Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He goes on to meet Lucas. (Both have been friends and critics of each other for ears.)
Conversation veers of dream projects:
Spielberg: “I have always wanted to make a James Bond movie.”
Lucas: “I have a movie better than James Bond in mind, it is called ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, the lead is an Archeologist Adventurer who goes off to search for Ark of the Convenant. The character will be like we had in 1950’s TV serials the character wears a fedora (a hat) and carries a Bullwhip. Are you interested?”
Spielberg: “I want to direct it.”
Lucas: “It is yours.”
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Spielberg was notorious in those days for going over-budget, so Lucas had a hard time to get the film financed. Film was rejected by many production houses, finally Paramount agreed to produce it.
The movie was highly story boarded before being shot so it helped keep budget in control. Also, Lucas kept Spielberg in reality check. Spielberg wanted the movie to be grand, but Lucas wanted it to be low-rung, at one stage Lucas advised him, “Think of this as a B-movie.”
Together they made Indy a cult classic. (I have been using term “cult classic” a little too frequently theses days, hehe.) Till date Indy has had 4 parts and Behold, talks for Indiana Jones 5 are on!!
P.S. Plan for Statesmen section from initial days also included in covering of great cinematic partnership. This article above is our first attempt in the same idea.
Written by, Ali Naqvi.
Status of George Lucas: after initial doubts of many Star Wars has released to stupendous results. Verdict is out: Star Wars is on the way to have a cult following. Lucas escapes of to a beach to stay away from all huge media attention after Star Wars
Status of Steven Spielberg: creator of Jaws is in trouble; his films are going over budget including Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He goes on to meet Lucas. (Both have been friends and critics of each other for ears.)
Conversation veers of dream projects:
Spielberg: “I have always wanted to make a James Bond movie.”
Lucas: “I have a movie better than James Bond in mind, it is called ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, the lead is an Archeologist Adventurer who goes off to search for Ark of the Convenant. The character will be like we had in 1950’s TV serials the character wears a fedora (a hat) and carries a Bullwhip. Are you interested?”
Spielberg: “I want to direct it.”
Lucas: “It is yours.”
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Spielberg was notorious in those days for going over-budget, so Lucas had a hard time to get the film financed. Film was rejected by many production houses, finally Paramount agreed to produce it.
The movie was highly story boarded before being shot so it helped keep budget in control. Also, Lucas kept Spielberg in reality check. Spielberg wanted the movie to be grand, but Lucas wanted it to be low-rung, at one stage Lucas advised him, “Think of this as a B-movie.”
Together they made Indy a cult classic. (I have been using term “cult classic” a little too frequently theses days, hehe.) Till date Indy has had 4 parts and Behold, talks for Indiana Jones 5 are on!!
P.S. Plan for Statesmen section from initial days also included in covering of great cinematic partnership. This article above is our first attempt in the same idea.
Written by, Ali Naqvi.
2 comments:
Nice way of telling the history behind the franchise in the form of a dialogue.
Maybe you could have expanded it further....
And yes, congrats to all you guys too.
good idea Sujoy but i kept this short on purpose... short n sweet ..thanks for the wishes too !!
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