Some ideas are better left as just ideas and this one falls under that category. M. Night Shyamalan once met with Steven Spielberg to discuss ideas for Indiana Jones 4. In an interview with Collider, Shyamalan said he shared his vision for Indiana Jones many years ago. He apparently had “a darker idea” for the fourth franchise entry, which would have been quite different from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, though it never progressed any further beyond those early discussions. Shyamalan stated,
“Obviously, Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite movie of all time, and so this was a dream, to be asked as a kid to go see a movie in a movie theater and then later to be asked by that person to write one of those in the future. I could faint at that moment. It was amazing,”
“I do have my notebooks; I still have those with all my ideas for that movie,” he continued. “I did have a take. I talked to everybody involved and it was so nascent at that time, that movie. Everyone hadn’t gotten into a room yet. They were bouncing ideas off of me. So everyone had different ideas of what to do… and I had this idea. It was a darker idea.”
The next installment in the film series is expected to conclude Indiana Jones’ journey, 12 years after the events of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
